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title: Yukiko knelt motionless, not knowing what to do; but the lord nodded… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Yukiko knelt motionless, not knowing what to do; but the lord nodded assent. Who acts: Yukiko. 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 87

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Yukiko knelt motionless, not knowing what to do; but the lord nodded assent.

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**Who acts:** Yukiko · **What happens:** kneel, not know, do, nod · **To what, where:** lord assent, lord

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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 (Yukiko), 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:pg8128:26:87
# text = Yukiko knelt motionless, not knowing what to do; but the lord nodded assent.
1	Yukiko	Yukiko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	nodded	nod	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	assent	assent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kneel** | past | Yukiko | lord assent |  |  |  | motionless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **know** | gerund | Yukiko *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | Yukiko *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **nod** | participle |  | the lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: 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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