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title: _’ Then the other monks, whom I had assembled, all fled in fear. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _’ Then the other monks, whom I had assembled, all fled in fear. Who acts: I. 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 52

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\_’ Then the other monks, whom I had assembled, all fled in fear.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** assemble, flee · **To what, where:** other monks, fear

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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), 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:pg8128:27:53
# text = _’ Then the other monks, whom I had assembled, all fled in fear.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
3	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past · perfect | I | the other monks |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 2 | **flee** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  | fear |  | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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