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title: The priest gladly promised to follow these injunctions; and the Teng… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The priest gladly promised to follow these injunctions; and the Tengu hurried away as if to prepare the spectacle. Who acts: priest, Tengu. 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 39

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The priest gladly promised to follow these injunctions; and the Tengu hurried away as if to prepare the spectacle.

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**Who acts:** priest, Tengu · **What happens:** promise, follow, hurry away, prepare · **To what, where:** injunctions, spectacle

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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 (priest, Tengu), 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:pg8128:27:39
# text = The priest gladly promised to follow these injunctions; and the Tengu hurried away as if to prepare the spectacle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	injunctions	injunction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Tengu	Tengu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the priest |  |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the priest *not said here* | this injunctions |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injunction=Theme |
| 3 | **hurry away** | past | the Tengu |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | the Tengu *not said here* | the spectacle |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Patient |

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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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