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title: Lizard-like it takes the grey tints of the rude grey coast on which… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Lizard-like it takes the grey tints of the rude grey coast on which it rests,—curving along a little bay. Who acts: it, 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 58

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Lizard-like it takes the grey tints of the rude grey coast on which it rests,—curving along a little bay.

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**Who acts:** it, town · **What happens:** take, rest, curve · **To what, where:** grey tints, rude grey coast

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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 (it, 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:pg8128:27:59
# text = Lizard-like it takes the grey tints of the rude grey coast on which it rests,—curving along a little bay.
1	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tints	tint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rests	rest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	curving	curve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
21	along	along	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | it | the grey tints of the rude grey coast |  |  |  | Lizard *vocative* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tint=Theme |
| 2 | **rest** | present | town |  |  | the rude grey coast |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location |
| 3 | **curve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | along a little bay | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |

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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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