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title: Among a people with whom poetry has been for centuries a universal f… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Among a people with whom poetry has been for centuries a universal fashion of emotional utterance, we should naturally suppose the common ideal of life to be a noble one. Who acts: poetry, we. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with its dependency tre
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 95

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Among a people with whom poetry has been for centuries a universal fashion of emotional utterance, we should naturally suppose the common ideal of life to be a noble one.

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**Who acts:** poetry, we · **What happens:** be, suppose · **To what, where:** common ideal, noble one

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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 (poetry, we), 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:pg8128:9:95
# text = Among a people with whom poetry has been for centuries a universal fashion of emotional utterance, we should naturally suppose the common ideal of life to be a noble one.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	emotional	emotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ideal	ideal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | poetry |  |  |  |  | for centuries; a universal fashion of emotional utterance *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **suppose** | should | we | the common ideal of life |  |  |  | among a people; naturally *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ideal=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | a noble one |  |  |  |  | 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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