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title: I stopped to look at the five crests upon it; and in the same moment… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I stopped to look at the five crests upon it; and in the same moment there came to my recollection this legend of a similar robe said to have once caused the destruction of Yedo. Who acts: I, legend, my. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 52

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I stopped to look at the five crests upon it; and in the same moment there came to my recollection this legend of a similar robe said to have once caused the destruction of Yedo.

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**Who acts:** I, legend, my · **What happens:** stop, look, come, say, have, cause · **To what, where:** recollection, destruction, Yedo · **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, legend, my), 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:pg8128:1:52
# text = I stopped to look at the five crests upon it; and in the same moment there came to my recollection this legend of a similar robe said to have once caused the destruction of Yedo.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	crests	crest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	recollection	recollection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
31	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	32	advmod	_	_
32	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Yedo	Yedo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon tint; at the five crests | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at crest=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | my recollection | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to recollection=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | this legend of a similar robe | my recollection *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cause** | participle |  | the destruction of Yedo |  |  |  | once *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition destruction=Patient |
| 7 | **recollect** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom recollection «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **destroy** |  |  | Yedo |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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