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title: I happened to be at Yaidzu during the three days of the _Bon_ or Fes… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I happened to be at Yaidzu during the three days of the _Bon_ or Festival of the Dead; and I hoped to see the beautiful farewell ceremony of the third and last day. Who acts: I. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 86

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I happened to be at Yaidzu during the three days of the \_Bon\_ or Festival of the Dead; and I hoped to see the beautiful farewell ceremony of the third and last day.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** happen, be, hope, see · **To what, where:** Yaidzu, beautiful farewell ceremony

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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 (I), 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:pg8128:27:87
# text = I happened to be at Yaidzu during the three days of the _Bon_ or Festival of the Dead; and I hoped to see the beautiful farewell ceremony of the third and last day.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Yaidzu	Yaidzu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	during	during	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Bon	Bon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Dead	Dead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	farewell	farewell	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | I |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Yaidzu |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hope** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the beautiful farewell ceremony of the third day |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ceremony=Stimulus |

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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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