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title: I. “Tasogare” (“Who-Is-there?” — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I. “Tasogare” (“Who-Is-there?” Who acts: I. Tasogare. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 1

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I. “Tasogare” (“Who-Is-there?”

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**Who acts:** I. Tasogare · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** I. Tasogare

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 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. Tasogare), 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:pg8128:3:1
# text = I. “Tasogare” (“Who-Is-there?”
1	I.	I.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	flat:foreign	_	_
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tasogare	Tasogare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I. Tasogare *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |

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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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