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title: [1] This story may be found in the curious old Japanese book called… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] This story may be found in the curious old Japanese book called _Jikkun-Shō_. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 1

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\[1\] This story may be found in the curious old Japanese book called \_Jikkun-Shō\_.

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**What happens:** find, call · **To what, where:** story, curious old Japanese book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu\[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8128:27:1
# text = [1] This story may be found in the curious old Japanese book called _Jikkun-Shō_.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Jikkun	Jikkun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Shō	Shō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	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 | **find** | may · passive |  | this story |  | the curious old Japanese book |  | 1 *discourse* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the curious old Japanese book *not said here* |  |  |  | Jikkun and Shō *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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