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title: The same legend has furnished the subject of an interesting _Nō_-pla… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The same legend has furnished the subject of an interesting _Nō_-play, called _Dai-É_ (“The Great Assembly”). 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 2

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The same legend has furnished the subject of an interesting \_Nō\_-play, called \_Dai-É\_ (“The Great Assembly”).

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**What happens:** furnish, call · **To what, where:** same legend, play · **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: 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:pg8128:27:2
# text = The same legend has furnished the subject of an interesting _Nō_-play, called _Dai-É_ (“The Great Assembly”).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Nō	Nō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Dai	Dai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	É	É	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
27	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furnish** | present · perfect · passive |  | the same legend |  |  |  | the subject of a interesting Nō *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | play *not said here* |  |  |  | Dai and É *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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