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title: One summer day this good priest, after a visit to the city, was retu… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: One summer day this good priest, after a visit to the city, was returning to his temple by way of Kita-no-Ōji, when he saw some boys ill-treating a kite. Who acts: priest. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 7

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One summer day this good priest, after a visit to the city, was returning to his temple by way of Kita-no-Ōji, when he saw some boys ill-treating a kite.

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**Who acts:** priest · **What happens:** return, see, treat · **To what, where:** boys, kite

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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 (priest), 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:pg8128:27:7
# text = One summer day this good priest, after a visit to the city, was returning to his temple by way of Kita-no-Ōji, when he saw some boys ill-treating a kite.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Kita	Kita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Ōji	Ōji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  | day | to priest's temple *result*; by way of Kita and no Ōji | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to temple=Result |
| 2 | **see** | past | priest | some boys |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
| 3 | **treat** | gerund | priest *not said here* | a kite |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kite=Recipient |

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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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