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title: Each one of its corners supported a slender slick about sixteen inch… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Each one of its corners supported a slender slick about sixteen inches high; and these four uprights, united above by cross-pieces, sustained the paper sides. Who acts: one, four uprights. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 102

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Each one of its corners supported a slender slick about sixteen inches high; and these four uprights, united above by cross-pieces, sustained the paper sides.

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**Who acts:** one, four uprights · **What happens:** support, unite, sustain · **To what, where:** slender slick, four uprights, cross-pieces, paper sides

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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: who acts (one, four uprights), 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:pg8128:27:103
# text = Each one of its corners supported a slender slick about sixteen inches high; and these four uprights, united above by cross-pieces, sustained the paper sides.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	supported	support	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	slick	slick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	uprights	upright	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	united	unite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	cross-pieces	cross-piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	sustained	sustain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **support** | past | each one of plank's corners | a slender slick |  |  |  | about sixteen inches | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slick=Stimulus |
| 2 | **unite** | participle |  | this four uprights *not said here* |  | cross-pieces |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sustain** | past | this four uprights | the paper sides |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent side=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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