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title: I was much disappointed: I felt that I had lazily missed an opportun… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I was much disappointed: I felt that I had lazily missed an opportunity which might never again return,—for these old Bon-customs are dying rapidly. 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 every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 92

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I was much disappointed: I felt that I had lazily missed an opportunity which might never again return,—for these old Bon-customs are dying rapidly.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, feel, miss, return, die · **To what, where:** opportunity

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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:pg8128:27:93
# text = I was much disappointed: I felt that I had lazily missed an opportunity which might never again return,—for these old Bon-customs are dying rapidly.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	lazily	lazily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	missed	miss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	Bon	Bon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
30	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | disappointed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **miss** | past · perfect | I | a opportunity |  |  |  | lazily *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opportunity=Stimulus |
| 4 | **return** | might |  | a opportunity |  |  | again; never |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | present · progressive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for old Bon customs  these; rapidly *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for custom=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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