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title: Midnight being the customary hour elsewhere, I supposed that it was… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Midnight being the customary hour elsewhere, I supposed that it was the hour of farewell at Yaidzu also, and I rashly indulged in a nap after supper, expecting to wake up in time for the spectacle. Who acts: I, dark. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its d
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 89

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Midnight being the customary hour elsewhere, I supposed that it was the hour of farewell at Yaidzu also, and I rashly indulged in a nap after supper, expecting to wake up in time for the spectacle.

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**Who acts:** I, dark · **What happens:** be, suppose, indulge, expect, wake up · **To what, where:** Midnight customary hour, hour, nap · **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 (I, dark), 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:pg8128:27:90
# text = Midnight being the customary hour elsewhere, I supposed that it was the hour of farewell at Yaidzu also, and I rashly indulged in a nap after supper, expecting to wake up in time for the spectacle.
1	Midnight	midnight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Yaidzu	Yaidzu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	rashly	rashly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	indulged	indulge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund |  | the Midnight customary hour |  |  |  | elsewhere *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **suppose** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | dark | the hour |  |  |  | of farewell at Yaidzu | tree rules |
| 4 | **indulge** | past | I |  |  | a nap | after supper | rashly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **expect** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **wake up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | time | for the spectacle | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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