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title: Sometimes she would pass hours before it,—dreaming and weeping by tu… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes she would pass hours before it,—dreaming and weeping by turns. Who acts: image. 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 60

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Sometimes she would pass hours before it,—dreaming and weeping by turns.

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**Who acts:** image · **What happens:** pass, dream, weep · **To what, where:** robe

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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), 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:pg8128:1:60
# text = Sometimes she would pass hours before it,—dreaming and weeping by turns.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | would | image |  |  | robe | hour | sometimes *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before it=Location |
| 2 | **dream** | gerund | image *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weep** | gerund | image *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by turns | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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