---
title: Accordingly, in the old days, every form of trouble was encountered… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly, in the old days, every form of trouble was encountered with a poem. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/10/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Names of Incense Used., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/10/) / 11

# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Accordingly, in the old days, every form of trouble was encountered with a poem.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** encounter, form · **To what, where:** form, trouble

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:10:11
# text = Accordingly, in the old days, every form of trouble was encountered with a poem.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encounter** | past · passive |  | every form of trouble |  |  | day | with a poem | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **form** |  |  | trouble |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/10/10/)
- next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/10/12/)
- ↑ back to [Names of Incense Used., part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/10/)