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title: Then, with eyelids closed, she answered him in a voice thin as the v… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, with eyelids closed, she answered him in a voice thin as the voice of in insect:— Who acts: rite. 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 58

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Then, with eyelids closed, she answered him in a voice thin as the voice of in insect:—

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**Who acts:** rite · **What happens:** close, answer · **To what, where:** eyelids, Buddha, voice

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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 (rite), 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:pg8128:26:58
# text = Then, with eyelids closed, she answered him in a voice thin as the voice of in insect:—
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | participle |  | eyelids *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | rite |  | Buddha | a voice | then | with eyelids | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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