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title: _Whither now should! look?—where is the place of parting? — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _Whither now should! look?—where is the place of parting? A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, After Farewell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, After Farewell, sentence 1

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\_Whither now should! look?—where is the place of parting?

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**What happens:** look, be · **To what, where:** place

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, After Farewell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8128:17:1
# text = _Whither now should! look?—where is the place of parting?
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | should |  |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the place |  |  |  | of parting | 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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