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title: She possesses a rude moral code—inculcating loyalty, submission, gen… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: She possesses a rude moral code—inculcating loyalty, submission, gentleness, gratitude, and maternal love; together with various minor rules of conduct;—and this simple code she has always observed. Who acts: faith, conduct. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used.,
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 87

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She possesses a rude moral code—inculcating loyalty, submission, gentleness, gratitude, and maternal love; together with various minor rules of conduct;—and this simple code she has always observed.

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**Who acts:** faith, conduct · **What happens:** possess, inculcate, observe, rule · **To what, where:** rude moral code, simple code

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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, conduct), 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:pg8128:9:87
# text = She possesses a rude moral code—inculcating loyalty, submission, gentleness, gratitude, and maternal love; together with various minor rules of conduct;—and this simple code she has always observed.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	inculcating	inculcate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	submission	submission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	maternal	maternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	_
37	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | faith | a rude moral code and inculcating loyalty and submission and gentleness and gratitude and maternal love |  |  |  | with various minor rules of conduct; together *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot code=Theme |
| 2 | **inculcate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **observe** | present · perfect · passive |  | this simple code |  |  |  | faith *nsubj*; always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **rule** |  | conduct |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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