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title: If you once get struck by a stone-wave,—as I did several times,—you… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: If you once get struck by a stone-wave,—as I did several times,—you will not soon forget the experience. Who acts: stone wave, I, you. 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 64

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If you once get struck by a stone-wave,—as I did several times,—you will not soon forget the experience.

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**Who acts:** stone wave, I, you · **What happens:** strike, do, not forget · **To what, where:** you, experience

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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 (stone wave, I, you), 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:pg8128:27:65
# text = If you once get struck by a stone-wave,—as I did several times,—you will not soon forget the experience.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
4	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | a stone wave | you |  |  |  | once *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument |
| 2 | **do** | past | I |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | future | you | the experience |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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