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title: The bull-headed demons are called _Go-zu;_ the horse-headed _Mé-zu_. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The bull-headed demons are called _Go-zu;_ the horse-headed _Mé-zu_. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 2, sentence 100

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The bull-headed demons are called \_Go-zu;\_ the horse-headed \_Mé-zu\_.

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**What happens:** call, head · **To what, where:** headed demons · **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 2. 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:pg8128:25:100
# text = The bull-headed demons are called _Go-zu;_ the horse-headed _Mé-zu_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	headed	headed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Go	Go	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	zu	zu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Mé	Mé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	zu	zu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | the headed demons |  |  |  | \_ *xcomp*; the headed Mé zu *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | horse *compound* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: 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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