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title: And unto whomsoever thinks about these matters, the story of a divin… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And unto whomsoever thinks about these matters, the story of a divine universe, made and ruled by paternal love, sounds less persuasive than the Polynesian tale that the souls of the dead are devoured by the gods. Who acts: gods. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense U
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 62

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And unto whomsoever thinks about these matters, the story of a divine universe, made and ruled by paternal love, sounds less persuasive than the Polynesian tale that the souls of the dead are devoured by the gods.

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**Who acts:** gods · **What happens:** think, make, rule, sound, devour · **To what, where:** divine universe, souls

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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 (gods), 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:pg8128:9:62
# text = And unto whomsoever thinks about these matters, the story of a divine universe, made and ruled by paternal love, sounds less persuasive than the Polynesian tale that the souls of the dead are devoured by the gods.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	whomsoever	whomsoever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	universe	universe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	paternal	paternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	persuasive	persuasive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nmod	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  | unto whomsoever; about this matters | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about matter=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a divine universe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **rule** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by paternal love | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sound** | present |  |  |  |  |  | persuasive *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **devour** | present · passive | the gods | the souls of the dead |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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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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