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title: As in the droplet monad swallows monad, so in the vast of Space do s… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: As in the droplet monad swallows monad, so in the vast of Space do spheres consume each other. Who acts: spheres. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 59

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As in the droplet monad swallows monad, so in the vast of Space do spheres consume each other.

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**Who acts:** spheres · **What happens:** swallow, consume · **To what, where:** monad, droplet monad, each

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spheres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:9:59
# text = As in the droplet monad swallows monad, so in the vast of Space do spheres consume each other.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	droplet	droplet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	monad	monad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	swallows	swallow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
7	monad	monad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	vast	vast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Space	Space	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	spheres	sphere	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	17	obj	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | present | spheres *not said here* | monad |  | the droplet monad |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monad=Patient |
| 2 | **consume** | present · do-support | spheres | each |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Asset |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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