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title: —“_Oh, body-piercing wind!—that work of little fingers in the shōji! — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: —“_Oh, body-piercing wind!—that work of little fingers in the shōji! Who acts: little fingers. 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 47

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—“\_Oh, body-piercing wind!—that work of little fingers in the shōji!

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**Who acts:** little fingers · **What happens:** work · **To what, where:** piercing wind

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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 (little fingers), 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:pg8128:10:48
# text = —“_Oh, body-piercing wind!—that work of little fingers in the shōji!
1	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	piercing	piercing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shōji	shōji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **work** *in a quote* |  | little fingers in the shōji |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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