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title: Under a bright sun the old fishing-town of Yaidzu has a particular c… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Under a bright sun the old fishing-town of Yaidzu has a particular charm of neutral color. Who acts: old fishing town. 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 57

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Under a bright sun the old fishing-town of Yaidzu has a particular charm of neutral color.

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**Who acts:** old fishing town · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** particular charm, bright sun

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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 (old fishing town), 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:pg8128:27:58
# text = Under a bright sun the old fishing-town of Yaidzu has a particular charm of neutral color.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Yaidzu	Yaidzu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	neutral	neutral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the old fishing town of Yaidzu | a particular charm of neutral color |  | a bright sun |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=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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