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title: “Only pleasantly cool,” I made answer, as I threw on my robe to go h… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Only pleasantly cool,” I made answer, as I threw on my robe to go home with them. Who acts: I. 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 120

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“Only pleasantly cool,” I made answer, as I threw on my robe to go home with them.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** answer, throw, go · **To what, where:** robe

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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 (I), 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:pg8128:27:121
# text = “Only pleasantly cool,” I made answer, as I threw on my robe to go home with them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	made	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | past | I |  |  | my robe |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with shadows *= shadow*; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |

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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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