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title: _(2) Perhaps a freak of the wind-yet perhaps a sign of remembrance,—… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _(2) Perhaps a freak of the wind-yet perhaps a sign of remembrance,— This fall of a single leaf on the water I pour for the dead. Who acts: wind, I. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Fancies of Another Faith, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Fancies of Another Faith, sentence 2

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\_(2) Perhaps a freak of the wind-yet perhaps a sign of remembrance,— This fall of a single leaf on the water I pour for the dead.

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**Who acts:** wind, I · **What happens:** sign, pour · **To what, where:** freak, water, \_

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Fancies of Another Faith. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, I), 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:pg8128:13:3
# text = _(2) Perhaps a freak of the wind-yet perhaps a sign of remembrance,— This fall of a single leaf on the water I pour for the dead.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	freak	freak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** |  | wind | a freak *not said here* |  |  | yet | of remembrance; this fall of a single leaf on the water *conj*; perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour** | present | I | the water *not said here* |  |  |  | for the dead | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent water=Patient for dead=Beneficiary |

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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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