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title: “Even a Kappa gets drowned sometimes,”[1] protested Otokichi. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Even a Kappa gets drowned sometimes,”[1] protested Otokichi. Who acts: Otokichi. 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 123

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“Even a Kappa gets drowned sometimes,”\[1\] protested Otokichi.

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**Who acts:** Otokichi · **What happens:** drown, protest · **To what, where:** Kappa · **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: who acts (Otokichi), 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:pg8128:27:124
# text = “Even a Kappa gets drowned sometimes,”[1] protested Otokichi.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Kappa	Kappa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
7	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	protested	protest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Otokichi	Otokichi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | a Kappa |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | past | Otokichi |  |  |  |  | 1 *discourse* | vn rebel-71.2-2 «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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