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title: And this calamity, which occurred upon the eighteenth day of the fir… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And this calamity, which occurred upon the eighteenth day of the first month of the first year of Meiréki (1655), is still remembered in Tōkyō as the _Furisodé-Kwaji_,—the Great Fire of the Long-sleeved Robe. Who acts: calamity. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its d
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 81

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And this calamity, which occurred upon the eighteenth day of the first month of the first year of Meiréki (1655), is still remembered in Tōkyō as the \_Furisodé-Kwaji\_,—the Great Fire of the Long-sleeved Robe.

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**Who acts:** calamity · **What happens:** occur, remember, sleeve · **To what, where:** calamity, Tōkyō

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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 (calamity), 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:pg8128:1:82
# text = And this calamity, which occurred upon the eighteenth day of the first month of the first year of Meiréki (1655), is still remembered in Tōkyō as the _Furisodé-Kwaji_,—the Great Fire of the Long-sleeved Robe.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	calamity	calamity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eighteenth	eighteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Meiréki	Meiréki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	1655	1655	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Tōkyō	Tōkyō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Furisodé	Furisodé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Kwaji	Kwaji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
44	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	sleeved	sleeve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	amod	_	_
47	Robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | past | this calamity |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remember** | present · passive |  | this calamity |  | Tōkyō | still | as the Furisodé and Kwaji and the Great Fire of the sleeved Robe | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as furisodé=Attribute |
| 3 | **sleeve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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