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title: Gifted, or afflicted, as she is with such terribly penetrant power o… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Gifted, or afflicted, as she is with such terribly penetrant power of sense, her notion of apparent realities must be worse than sepulchral. Who acts: faith, such terribly penetrant power. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with its dependency tree an
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 84

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Gifted, or afflicted, as she is with such terribly penetrant power of sense, her notion of apparent realities must be worse than sepulchral.

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**Who acts:** faith, such terribly penetrant power · **What happens:** gift, afflict, be

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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 (faith, such terribly penetrant power), 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:pg8128:9:84
# text = Gifted, or afflicted, as she is with such terribly penetrant power of sense, her notion of apparent realities must be worse than sepulchral.
1	Gifted	gift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	terribly	terribly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	penetrant	penetrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	apparent	apparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	realities	reality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	acl:relcl	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sepulchral	sepulchral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gift** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **afflict** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | faith |  |  |  |  | with such terribly penetrant power; of sense | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | must | such terribly penetrant power |  |  |  |  | than sepulchral; bad *property* | tree rules |

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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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