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title: The book suggested to him that on the south side of his dwelling, at… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The book suggested to him that on the south side of his dwelling, at a particular spot near one corner of the hut, great luck awaited him. Who acts: book, great luck. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 11

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The book suggested to him that on the south side of his dwelling, at a particular spot near one corner of the hut, great luck awaited him.

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**Who acts:** book, great luck · **What happens:** suggest, await · **To what, where:** man, south side

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book, great luck), 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:pg8128:4:11
# text = The book suggested to him that on the south side of his dwelling, at a particular spot near one corner of the hut, great luck awaited him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	south	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	awaited	await	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | the book | man |  | the south side of man's dwelling |  | at a particular spot; near one corner | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **await** | past | great luck | man |  |  |  | of the hut | 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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