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title: Recently, while passing through a little street tenanted chiefly by… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Recently, while passing through a little street tenanted chiefly by dealers in old wares, I noticed a _furisodé_, or long-sleeved robe, of the rich purple tint called _murasaki_, hanging before one of the shops. Who acts: I. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its depen
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 50

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Recently, while passing through a little street tenanted chiefly by dealers in old wares, I noticed a \_furisodé\_, or long-sleeved robe, of the rich purple tint called \_murasaki\_, hanging before one of the shops.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** pass, tenant, notice, sleeve, call, hang · **To what, where:** little street, furisodé, rich purple tint · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I), 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:pg8128:1:50
# text = Recently, while passing through a little street tenanted chiefly by dealers in old wares, I noticed a _furisodé_, or long-sleeved robe, of the rich purple tint called _murasaki_, hanging before one of the shops.
1	Recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	tenanted	tenant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dealers	dealer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	furisodé	furisodé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	sleeved	sleeve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	tint	tint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
35	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	murasaki	murasaki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	parataxis	_	_
41	before	before	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | a little street |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through street=Location |
| 2 | **tenant** | participle |  | a little street *not said here* |  |  |  | by dealers in old wares; chiefly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **notice** | past | I | a furisodé |  |  |  | long sleeved robe *parataxis*; recently *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer furisodé=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sleeve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | the rich purple tint *not said here* |  |  |  | murasaki *conj* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hang** | gerund |  |  |  |  | before one of the shops |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before one=Location |

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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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