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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 2

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I had the privilege of meeting him in Tōkyō, where he was making a brief stay on his way to India;—and we took a long walk together, and talked of Eastern religions, about which he knew incomparably more than I. Whatever I could tell him concerning local beliefs, he would comment upon in the most startling manner,—citing weird correspondences in some living cult of India, Burmah, or Ceylon.

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**Who acts:** I, privilege, Tōkyō, we · **What happens:** have, meet, make, take, talk, know · **To what, where:** privilege, him, Tōkyō, brief stay, way, long walk · **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 (I, privilege, Tōkyō, we), 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:pg8128:26:2
# text = I had the privilege of meeting him in Tōkyō, where he was making a brief stay on his way to India;—and we took a long walk together, and talked of Eastern religions, about which he knew incomparably more than I. Whatever I could tell him concerning local beliefs, he would comment upon in the most startling manner,—citing weird correspondences in some living cult of India, Burmah, or Ceylon.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	privilege	privilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Tōkyō	Tōkyō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	religions	religion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	about	about	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
43	incomparably	incomparably	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	obj	_	_
45	than	than	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	obj	_	_
48	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	iobj	_	_
52	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	54	case	_	_
53	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	comment	comment	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
59	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
62	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	63	advmod	_	_
63	startling	startling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	citing	cite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	advcl	_	_
68	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
69	correspondences	correspondence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	obj	_	_
70	in	in	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
71	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	73	det	_	_
72	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
73	cult	cult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	_
74	of	of	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
75	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	73	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	77	punct	_	_
77	Burmah	Burmah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	75	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
79	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	80	cc	_	_
80	Ceylon	Ceylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	75	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | the privilege |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent privilege=Patient |
| 2 | **meet** | gerund | the privilege *not said here* | him *= he* |  | Tōkyō |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past · progressive | Tōkyō | a brief stay |  | Tōkyō's way to India |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stay=Product |
| 4 | **take** | past | we | a long walk |  |  |  | together *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme |
| 5 | **talk** | past | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Eastern religions | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **know** | past | Tōkyō | more than I. |  |  |  | which *obl* | tree rules |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | I | Whatever | Tōkyō |  |  | concern local beliefs | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient whatever=Topic |
| 8 | **concern** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **comment** *speech: other* | would | Tōkyō |  |  |  |  | upon the startling manner | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **cite** | gerund | Tōkyō *not said here* | weird correspondences |  | some living cult of India and Burmah or Ceylon |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent correspondence=Theme |

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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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