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title: And long afterwards I wrote it down thus, as fairly as I was able, f… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And long afterwards I wrote it down thus, as fairly as I was able, from memory. Who acts: I. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, 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 3, sentence 41

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And long afterwards I wrote it down thus, as fairly as I was able, from memory.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** write down, be · **To what, where:** answer

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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), 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:pg8128:26:41
# text = And long afterwards I wrote it down thus, as fairly as I was able, from memory.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write down** | past | I | answer |  |  |  | afterwards, thus *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | memory *conj*; able, fairly *property* | 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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