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title: It seems real only for the same reason that the shapes and the pains… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: It seems real only for the same reason that the shapes and the pains of an evil dream seem real to the dreamer. Who acts: It, shapes. 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 69

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It seems real only for the same reason that the shapes and the pains of an evil dream seem real to the dreamer.

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**Who acts:** It, shapes · **What happens:** seem, pain · **To what, where:** same reason, evil dream

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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 (It, shapes), 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:pg8128:9:69
# text = It seems real only for the same reason that the shapes and the pains of an evil dream seem real to the dreamer.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
20	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dreamer	dreamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | It |  |  |  |  | the same reason *parataxis*; real *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | the shapes and the pains of a evil dream | the same reason |  |  |  | real *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute |
| 3 | **pain** |  |  | a evil dream |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: of=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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