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title: Having been challenged to make a poem of seventeen syllables referri… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Having been challenged to make a poem of seventeen syllables referring to a square, a triangle, and a circle, she is said to have immediately responded,— Who acts: seventeen syllables. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, wit
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 8

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Having been challenged to make a poem of seventeen syllables referring to a square, a triangle, and a circle, she is said to have immediately responded,—

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**Who acts:** seventeen syllables · **What happens:** challenge, make, refer, say, have, respond · **To what, where:** poem, circle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seventeen syllables), 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:pg8128:24:8
# text = Having been challenged to make a poem of seventeen syllables referring to a square, a triangle, and a circle, she is said to have immediately responded,—
1	Having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	aux	_	_
2	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	syllables	syllable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	referring	refer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	triangle	triangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	responded	respond	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **challenge** | gerund · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a poem of seventeen syllables |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=Product |
| 3 | **refer** | gerund | seventeen syllables *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a square | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to square=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a circle |  |  |  | Chiyo *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **respond** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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