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title: One of the paper-panes was red, one blue, one yellow; and the right… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the paper-panes was red, one blue, one yellow; and the right half of the fourth pane was black, while the left half, uncolored, represented white. Who acts: One, right half, left half. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pr
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 106

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One of the paper-panes was red, one blue, one yellow; and the right half of the fourth pane was black, while the left half, uncolored, represented white.

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**Who acts:** One, right half, left half · **What happens:** be, represent

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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, right half, left half), 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:pg8128:27:107
# text = One of the paper-panes was red, one blue, one yellow; and the right half of the fourth pane was black, while the left half, uncolored, represented white.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	pane	pane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	uncolored	uncolored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
35	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | One of the paper panes |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | One of the paper panes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | One of the paper panes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the right half of the fourth pane |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the left half |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **represent** | participle | the left half *not said here* |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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