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title: Even more remarkable are the bait-baskets of split bamboo,—baskets s… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Even more remarkable are the bait-baskets of split bamboo,—baskets six feet high and eighteen feet round, with one small hole in the dome-shaped top. 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 79

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Even more remarkable are the bait-baskets of split bamboo,—baskets six feet high and eighteen feet round, with one small hole in the dome-shaped top.

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**What happens:** be, split, shape · **To what, where:** remarkable bait baskets

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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: 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:pg8128:27:80
# text = Even more remarkable are the bait-baskets of split bamboo,—baskets six feet high and eighteen feet round, with one small hole in the dome-shaped top.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	bait	bait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
21	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the remarkable bait baskets and baskets and eighteen feet and one small hole in the shaped top |  |  |  | of split bamboo; baskets and eighteen feet and one small hole in the shaped top *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **split** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | dome *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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