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title: Infants delight to break these by poking their fingers through the s… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Infants delight to break these by poking their fingers through the soft paper: then the wind blows through the holes. Who acts: Infants, wind. 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 52

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Infants delight to break these by poking their fingers through the soft paper: then the wind blows through the holes.

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**Who acts:** Infants, wind · **What happens:** delight, break, poke, blow · **To what, where:** these, fingers, holes

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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 (Infants, wind), 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:pg8128:10:53
# text = Infants delight to break these by poking their fingers through the soft paper: then the wind blows through the holes.
1	Infants	infant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	delight	delight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	poking	poke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delight** | present | Infants |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | to-infinitive | Infants *not said here* | these |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Patient |
| 3 | **poke** | gerund | Infants *not said here* | Infants's fingers |  |  |  | through the soft paper | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent finger=Instrument through paper=Patient |
| 4 | **blow** | present | the wind |  |  | the holes | then |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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