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title: Embers from the burning temple presently dropped upon neighbouring r… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Embers from the burning temple presently dropped upon neighbouring roofs; and the whole street was soon ablaze. Who acts: Embers, whole street. 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 79

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Embers from the burning temple presently dropped upon neighbouring roofs; and the whole street was soon ablaze.

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**Who acts:** Embers, whole street · **What happens:** burn, drop, neighbour, be · **To what, where:** neighbouring roofs

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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 (Embers, whole street), 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:pg8128:1:80
# text = Embers from the burning temple presently dropped upon neighbouring roofs; and the whole street was soon ablaze.
1	Embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	ablaze	ablaze	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | past | Embers from the burning temple |  |  | neighbouring roofs |  | presently *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon roof=Trajectory |
| 3 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the whole street |  |  |  |  | ablaze, soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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