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title: Thinking this very strange, he picked up the pieces, and carefully e… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Thinking this very strange, he picked up the pieces, and carefully examined them. Who acts: Shōko. 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 107

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Thinking this very strange, he picked up the pieces, and carefully examined them.

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**Who acts:** Shōko · **What happens:** think, pick up, examine · **To what, where:** this, pieces, piece

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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:pg8128:3:109
# text = Thinking this very strange, he picked up the pieces, and carefully examined them.
1	Thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Shōko *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme |
| 2 | **pick up** | past | Shōko | the pieces |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic |
| 3 | **examine** | past | Shōko *not said here* | piece |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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