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title: Indeed it will sometimes be found that settlements, within a few mil… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed it will sometimes be found that settlements, within a few miles of each other, respectively manufacture nets or boats as dissimilar in type as might be the inventions of races living thousands of miles apart. Who acts: races. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Teng
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 69

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Indeed it will sometimes be found that settlements, within a few miles of each other, respectively manufacture nets or boats as dissimilar in type as might be the inventions of races living thousands of miles apart.

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**Who acts:** races · **What happens:** find, be, live · **To what, where:** shrine, thousands

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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 (races), 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:pg8128:27:70
# text = Indeed it will sometimes be found that settlements, within a few miles of each other, respectively manufacture nets or boats as dissimilar in type as might be the inventions of races living thousands of miles apart.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	respectively	respectively	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	dissimilar	dissimilar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	inventions	invention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
38	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	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 | **find** | future · passive |  | shrine |  |  |  | that settlements and a few miles of each and manufacture nets or boats; as dissimilar in type; indeed, sometimes *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme as dissimilar=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | might |  |  |  |  |  | as the inventions; of races | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | races *not said here* | thousands of miles |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thousand=Location |

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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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