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title: In every coast-province of Japan,—and even at different fishing-sett… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: In every coast-province of Japan,—and even at different fishing-settlements of the same province,—the forms of boats and fishing-implements are peculiar to the district or settlement. Who acts: different fishing settlements. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], wi
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 68

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In every coast-province of Japan,—and even at different fishing-settlements of the same province,—the forms of boats and fishing-implements are peculiar to the district or settlement.

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**Who acts:** different fishing settlements · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** peculiar, coast province, boats

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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 (different fishing settlements), 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:pg8128:27:69
# text = In every coast-province of Japan,—and even at different fishing-settlements of the same province,—the forms of boats and fishing-implements are peculiar to the district or settlement.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
3	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	implements	implement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	settlement	settlement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | different fishing settlements of the same province | peculiar |  | every coast province of Japan |  | to the district or settlement; the forms of boats and fishing implements *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** |  |  | boats and fishing implements |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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