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title: But at Yaidzu lanterns only are set afloat; and I was told that they… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But at Yaidzu lanterns only are set afloat; and I was told that they would be launched after dark. Who acts: Yaidzu lanterns. 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 88

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But at Yaidzu lanterns only are set afloat; and I was told that they would be launched after dark.

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**Who acts:** Yaidzu lanterns · **What happens:** be, tell, launch · **To what, where:** I, lantern · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Yaidzu lanterns), 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:pg8128:27:89
# text = But at Yaidzu lanterns only are set afloat; and I was told that they would be launched after dark.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Yaidzu	Yaidzu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	afloat	afloat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	launched	launch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Yaidzu lanterns |  |  |  |  | afloat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **launch** | would · passive |  | lantern |  |  | after dark |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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