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title: After a careful examination he said that he could not understand the… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: After a careful examination he said that he could not understand the case, and that for the immediate relief of Yukiko there was nothing to be done except to cut the hands from the corpse. Who acts: Yedo. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 110

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After a careful examination he said that he could not understand the case, and that for the immediate relief of Yukiko there was nothing to be done except to cut the hands from the corpse.

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**Who acts:** Yedo · **What happens:** say, not understand, do, cut · **To what, where:** case, hands, corpse · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yedo), 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:pg8128:26:110
# text = After a careful examination he said that he could not understand the case, and that for the immediate relief of Yukiko there was nothing to be done except to cut the hands from the corpse.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Yukiko	Yukiko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
29	except	except	ADP	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Yedo |  |  |  | after a careful examination | that for the immediate relief of Yukiko *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **understand** | could | Yedo | the case |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | Yedo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **cut** | to-infinitive | Yedo *not said here* | the hands |  | the corpse |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset hand=Product from corpse=Material |

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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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