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title: You will see a hundred or more persons thus engaged in moving a sing… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: You will see a hundred or more persons thus engaged in moving a single boat,—men, women, and children pulling together, in time to a curious melancholy chant. Who acts: You, hundred persons, children. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree a
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 75

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You will see a hundred or more persons thus engaged in moving a single boat,—men, women, and children pulling together, in time to a curious melancholy chant.

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**Who acts:** You, hundred persons, children · **What happens:** see, engage, move, pull together · **To what, where:** men, single boat, curious melancholy chant

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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 (You, hundred persons, children), 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:pg8128:27:76
# text = You will see a hundred or more persons thus engaged in moving a single boat,—men, women, and children pulling together, in time to a curious melancholy chant.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
8	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	engaged	engage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | future | You | men and women and children |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **engage** | past | hundred persons |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | hundred persons *not said here* | a single boat |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 4 | **pull together** | gerund | children *not said here* |  |  | a curious melancholy chant | time | together *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme to chant=Destination |

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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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