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title: Then Nanda found himself standing before a huge vessel which was fil… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Nanda found himself standing before a huge vessel which was filled with molten metal;—and he feared and wondered because this vessel had as yet no occupant. Who acts: Nanda, vessel. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, with its dependency tree and 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 111

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Then Nanda found himself standing before a huge vessel which was filled with molten metal;—and he feared and wondered because this vessel had as yet no occupant.

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**Who acts:** Nanda, vessel · **What happens:** find, stand, fill, fear, wonder, have · **To what, where:** Nanda, huge vessel

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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 (Nanda, vessel), 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:pg8128:4:111
# text = Then Nanda found himself standing before a huge vessel which was filled with molten metal;—and he feared and wondered because this vessel had as yet no occupant.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Nanda	Nanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	occupant	occupant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Nanda | Nanda |  |  | then |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | Nanda *not said here* |  |  | a huge vessel |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before vessel=Location |
| 3 | **fill** | past · passive |  | a huge vessel |  |  |  | with molten metal | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with metal=Instrument |
| 4 | **fear** | past | Nanda |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Nanda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **have** | past | this vessel |  |  |  |  | as no occupant | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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