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title: Usually about the time of the Bon, the sea gets rough; and I was not… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Usually about the time of the Bon, the sea gets rough; and I was not surprised to find next morning that the surf was running high. Who acts: sea, I, surf. 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 144

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Usually about the time of the Bon, the sea gets rough; and I was not surprised to find next morning that the surf was running high.

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**Who acts:** sea, I, surf · **What happens:** get, not be, find, run · **To what, where:** next morning

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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 (sea, I, surf), 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:pg8128:27:145
# text = Usually about the time of the Bon, the sea gets rough; and I was not surprised to find next morning that the surf was running high.
1	Usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Bon	Bon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	_
28	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the sea |  |  |  | time | of the Bon; rough *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme of bon=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **run** | past · progressive | the surf | next morning *not said here* |  |  |  | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme morning=Trajectory |

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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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