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title: _Wafted into my room, the scent of the flowers of the plum-tree Chan… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _Wafted into my room, the scent of the flowers of the plum-tree Changes my broken window into a source of delight. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Happy Poverty, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Happy Poverty, sentence 1

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\_Wafted into my room, the scent of the flowers of the plum-tree Changes my broken window into a source of delight.

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**What happens:** waft, break, scent · **To what, where:** room, flowers

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Happy Poverty. 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:pg8128:18:1
# text = _Wafted into my room, the scent of the flowers of the plum-tree Changes my broken window into a source of delight.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wafted	waft	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waft** | participle |  |  |  | my room into a source of delight and the scent of the flowers of the tree Changes  my broken window |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **scent** |  |  | the flowers of the tree Changes  my broken window |  |  |  |  | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=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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