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title: The following—mere thumb-nail sketches in verse—are of recent date. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The following—mere thumb-nail sketches in verse—are of recent date. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Shintō Revery, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 13

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The following—mere thumb-nail sketches in verse—are of recent date.

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**What happens:** follow, be

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Shintō Revery. 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:pg8128:23:14
# text = The following—mere thumb-nail sketches in verse—are of recent date.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sketches	sketch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of recent date; follow mere nail sketches in verse | 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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