--- title: Then you see great wooden anchors, shaped like ploughshares, and sho… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: Then you see great wooden anchors, shaped like ploughshares, and shod with metal; iron anchors, with four flukes; prodigious wooden mallets, used for driving stakes; and various other implements, still more unfamiliar, of which you cannot even imagine the purpose. Who acts: you. A sentence of «In Gh --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Story of a Tengu\[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/) / 81 # In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 81 Then you see great wooden anchors, shaped like ploughshares, and shod with metal; iron anchors, with four flukes; prodigious wooden mallets, used for driving stakes; and various other implements, still more unfamiliar, of which you cannot even imagine the purpose. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, shape, shoe, use, not imagine · **To what, where:** great wooden anchors, iron anchors, prodigious wooden mallets, purpose 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8128:27:82 # text = Then you see great wooden anchors, shaped like ploughshares, and shod with metal; iron anchors, with four flukes; prodigious wooden mallets, used for driving stakes; and various other implements, still more unfamiliar, of which you cannot even imagine the purpose. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 anchors anchor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 ploughshares ploughshare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 shod shoe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 anchors anchor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 flukes fluke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 prodigious prodigious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 mallets mallet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 driving driving NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 stakes stake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 34 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 implements implement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 still still ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ _ 40 unfamiliar unfamiliar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 obl _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 45 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 47 even even ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 parataxis _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | you | great wooden anchors | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anchor=Stimulus | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | great wooden anchors *not said here* | | | | like ploughshares | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **shoe** | past | you *not said here* | iron anchors | | | | with metal; with four flukes; prodigious wooden mallets *obl* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with metal=Theme | | 4 | **use** | participle | | prodigious wooden mallets *not said here* | | | | for driving stakes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **imagine** | can | you | the purpose | | | | which *obl* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot purpose=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/82/) - ↑ back to [Story of a Tengu\[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/)