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title: While still a very young man, Shōko Setsu obtained a high position b… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 100

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While still a very young man, Shōko Setsu obtained a high position by reason of his learning and virtue; but he resigned it and went into solitude that he might give his whole time to study.

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**Who acts:** Shōko · **What happens:** obtain, resign, go, give, study · **To what, where:** high position, position, solitude

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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 (Shōko), 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:pg8128:3:102
# text = While still a very young man, Shōko Setsu obtained a high position by reason of his learning and virtue; but he resigned it and went into solitude that he might give his whole time to study.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Shōko	Shōko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Setsu	Setsu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	resigned	resign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	study	study	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | past | Shōko | a high position |  |  |  | by reason of Shōko's learning and virtue; a young man *advcl* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme |
| 2 | **resign** | past | Shōko | position |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | Shōko *not said here* |  |  | solitude |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into solitude=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **give** | might | Shōko |  |  |  | time |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **study** | to-infinitive | Shōko *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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