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title: But during these fugitive trips he never failed to visit me; bringin… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But during these fugitive trips he never failed to visit me; bringing welcome news of Izumo people and places,—bringing also some queer little present, generally of a religious kind, from some famous place of pilgrimage. Who acts: fugitive, some. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, N
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 93

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But during these fugitive trips he never failed to visit me; bringing welcome news of Izumo people and places,—bringing also some queer little present, generally of a religious kind, from some famous place of pilgrimage.

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**Who acts:** fugitive, some · **What happens:** trip, not fail, visit, bring, present · **To what, where:** me, welcome news, famous place

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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 (fugitive, some), 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:pg8128:3:95
# text = But during these fugitive trips he never failed to visit me; bringing welcome news of Izumo people and places,—bringing also some queer little present, generally of a religious kind, from some famous place of pilgrimage.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	fugitive	fugitive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	trips	trip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Izumo	Izumo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	nsubj	_	_
26	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
38	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trip** | present | this fugitive |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fail** | past | fugitive |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | fugitive *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | gerund | this fugitive *not said here* | welcome news of Izumo people and places |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | gerund | this fugitive *not said here* |  |  | some famous place of pilgrimage |  | a religious kind *conj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from place=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **present** |  | some |  |  |  |  |  | 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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