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title: [5] The places occupied by guests in a Japanese _zashiki_, or recept… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [5] The places occupied by guests in a Japanese _zashiki_, or reception room are numbered from the alcove of the apartment. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 190

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\[5\] The places occupied by guests in a Japanese \_zashiki\_, or reception room are numbered from the alcove of the apartment.

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**What happens:** occupy, number · **To what, where:** places, Japanese zashiki, 5, alcove

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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: 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:pg8128:1:193
# text = [5] The places occupied by guests in a Japanese _zashiki_, or reception room are numbered from the alcove of the apartment.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	zashiki	zashiki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	alcove	alcove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | participle |  | the places *not said here* |  | a Japanese zashiki |  | by guests | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **number** | present · passive |  | 5  the places or reception room |  | the alcove of the apartment |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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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