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title: “Well, call them what you like,” returned Niimi;—“the poets call the… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, call them what you like,” returned Niimi;—“the poets call them eyebrows…. Who acts: you, poets. 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 26

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“Well, call them what you like,” returned Niimi;—“the poets call them eyebrows….

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**Who acts:** you, poets · **What happens:** call, like, return · **To what, where:** Silkworms, Niimi · **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 (you, poets), 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:pg8128:4:26
# text = “Well, call them what you like,” returned Niimi;—“the poets call them eyebrows….
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	Niimi	Niimi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	….	..	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Silkworms *= silkworm* |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme what=Result |
| 2 | **like** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **return** | past | you *not said here* | Niimi |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent niimi=Theme |
| 4 | **call** *in a quote* | present | the poets | Silkworms *= silkworm* |  |  |  | eyebrows *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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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