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title: She fancied that by wearing a robe of like quality and color, bearin… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: She fancied that by wearing a robe of like quality and color, bearing the same crest, she might be able to attract his notice on some future occasion. Who acts: image, legend. 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 57

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She fancied that by wearing a robe of like quality and color, bearing the same crest, she might be able to attract his notice on some future occasion.

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**Who acts:** image, legend · **What happens:** fancy, wear, bear, be, attract, notice · **To what, where:** robe, same crest, notice, future occasion

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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 (image, legend), 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:pg8128:1:57
# text = She fancied that by wearing a robe of like quality and color, bearing the same crest, she might be able to attract his notice on some future occasion.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | past | image |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | image *not said here* | a robe of quality and color |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent robe=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | gerund | image *not said here* | the same crest |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crest=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | might | image |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **attract** | to-infinitive | image *not said here* | legend's notice |  | some future occasion |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Patient |
| 6 | **notice** |  | legend |  |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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