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title: He dug at the place indicated, and found a jar containing gold enoug… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: He dug at the place indicated, and found a jar containing gold enough to make him a very wealthy man.” Who acts: luck, jar. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 12

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He dug at the place indicated, and found a jar containing gold enough to make him a very wealthy man.”

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**Who acts:** luck, jar · **What happens:** dig, indicate, find, contain, make · **To what, where:** place, jar, gold, luck · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (luck, jar), 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:pg8128:4:12
# text = He dug at the place indicated, and found a jar containing gold enough to make him a very wealthy man.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	indicated	indicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | past | luck |  |  |  |  | at the place | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at place=Theme |
| 2 | **indicate** | participle |  | the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **find** | past | luck *not said here* | a jar |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent jar=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **contain** | gerund | a jar *not said here* | gold |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | luck |  |  |  | a wealthy man *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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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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