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title: Happy at having performed this Buddhist act of merit, the priest the… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Happy at having performed this Buddhist act of merit, the priest then resumed his walk. Who acts: Buddhist act, merit, priest. 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 13

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Happy at having performed this Buddhist act of merit, the priest then resumed his walk.

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**Who acts:** Buddhist act, merit, priest · **What happens:** perform, resume, act, walk · **To what, where:** walk

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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 (Buddhist act, merit, priest), 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:pg8128:27:13
# text = Happy at having performed this Buddhist act of merit, the priest then resumed his walk.
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux	_	_
4	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	xcomp	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	merit	merit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	resumed	resume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | gerund · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resume** | past | this Buddhist act of merit and the priest | priest's walk |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Eventuality |
| 4 | **act** |  | merit and the priest |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **walk** |  | priest |  |  |  |  |  | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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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