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title: Even in this less romantic era of Meiji, young people resolved upon… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Even in this less romantic era of Meiji, young people resolved upon suicide are wont to compose some verses before quitting the world. Who acts: young people, romantic era. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 14

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Even in this less romantic era of Meiji, young people resolved upon suicide are wont to compose some verses before quitting the world.

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**Who acts:** young people, romantic era · **What happens:** resolve, be, compose, quit · **To what, where:** Meiji, verses, world

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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: who acts (young people, romantic era), 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:pg8128:10:14
# text = Even in this less romantic era of Meiji, young people resolved upon suicide are wont to compose some verses before quitting the world.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
4	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Meiji	Meiji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	suicide	suicide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	compose	compose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	quitting	quit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | young people | Meiji *not said here* |  |  |  | upon suicide | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | this romantic era of Meiji |  |  |  |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **compose** | to-infinitive | this romantic era of Meiji *not said here* | some verses |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Result |
| 4 | **quit** | gerund | this romantic era of Meiji *not said here* | the world |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Source |

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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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