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title: Ranged along the sea-wall to dry, they might at some distance be mis… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Ranged along the sea-wall to dry, they might at some distance be mistaken for habitations or huts of some sort. 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 80

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Ranged along the sea-wall to dry, they might at some distance be mistaken for habitations or huts of some sort.

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**What happens:** range, dry, mistake · **To what, where:** sea wall, wall

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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:pg8128:27:81
# text = Ranged along the sea-wall to dry, they might at some distance be mistaken for habitations or huts of some sort.
1	Ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	mistaken	mistake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	habitations	habitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **range** | participle |  |  |  | the sea wall |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along wall=Location |
| 2 | **dry** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **mistake** | might · passive |  | wall |  |  |  | at some distance; for habitations or huts of some sort | tree rules |

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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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