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title: The six take their places in line, or in a half-circle—if the room b… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The six take their places in line, or in a half-circle—if the room be small; but they do not sit close together, for reasons which will presently appear. Who acts: six, room, rules, reasons. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 184

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The six take their places in line, or in a half-circle—if the room be small; but they do not sit close together, for reasons which will presently appear.

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**Who acts:** six, room, rules, reasons · **What happens:** take, be, not sit, appear · **To what, where:** places, line

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six, room, rules, reasons), 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:pg8128:1:187
# text = The six take their places in line, or in a half-circle—if the room be small; but they do not sit close together, for reasons which will presently appear.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
27	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	parataxis	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | the six | rules's places |  | line |  | in a half circle | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in line=Location |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | the room |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **sit** | present · do-support | rules *= rule* |  |  |  |  | reasons *parataxis*; close, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **appear** | future | reasons |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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