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title: —“_In my native place the old folks [or, my parents] are—clamor of i… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: —“_In my native place the old folks [or, my parents] are—clamor of insect-voices! Who acts: old folks. 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.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 40

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—“\_In my native place the old folks \[or, my parents\] are—clamor of insect-voices!

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**Who acts:** old folks · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** clamor, native place

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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 (old folks), 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:pg8128:10:40
# text = —“_In my native place the old folks [or, my parents] are—clamor of insect-voices!
1	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	clamor	clamor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the old folks | clamor |  |  |  | of insect voices | 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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