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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 83

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To do him justice I must mention that in my own case—(he told my fortune four times),—his predictions were fulfilled in such wise that I became afraid of them.

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**Who acts:** I, teller · **What happens:** do, mention, tell, fulfil, become, predict · **To what, where:** teller, own case, fortune, predictions, such wise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, teller), 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:pg8128:3:85
# text = To do him justice I must mention that in my own case—(he told my fortune four times),—his predictions were fulfilled in such wise that I became afraid of them.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	predictions	prediction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
34	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | teller |  |  |  | justice *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | must | I |  |  | my own case |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | teller | my fortune |  |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fortune=Recipient |
| 4 | **fulfil** | past · passive |  | teller's predictions |  | such wise |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **become** | past | I |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **predict** |  | teller |  |  |  |  |  | nom prediction «cognition transitive»: poss=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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