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title: I perfectly well remember the assembly on the Vulture Peak; and I ca… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I perfectly well remember the assembly on the Vulture Peak; and I can cause everything that happened there to reappear before you, exactly as it occurred. Who acts: I, Assembly. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 28

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I perfectly well remember the assembly on the Vulture Peak; and I can cause everything that happened there to reappear before you, exactly as it occurred.

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**Who acts:** I, Assembly · **What happens:** remember, cause, happen, reappear, occur · **To what, where:** assembly, Vulture Peak, everything

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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, Assembly), 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:pg8128:27:28
# text = I perfectly well remember the assembly on the Vulture Peak; and I can cause everything that happened there to reappear before you, exactly as it occurred.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Vulture	Vulture	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Peak	Peak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	reappear	reappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | infinitive | I | the assembly |  | the Vulture Peak |  | perfectly, well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent assembly=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | can | I | everything |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition everything=Patient |
| 3 | **happen** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reappear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | before you |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before you=Location |
| 5 | **occur** | past | Assembly |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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