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title: He left the guest-room, and presently returned with a white paper-fa… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: He left the guest-room, and presently returned with a white paper-fan, on which a silkworm-moth was sleepily reposing. Who acts: Niimi, silkworm moth. 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 28

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He left the guest-room, and presently returned with a white paper-fan, on which a silkworm-moth was sleepily reposing.

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**Who acts:** Niimi, silkworm moth · **What happens:** leave, return, be, repose · **To what, where:** guest room

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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 (Niimi, silkworm moth), 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:pg8128:4:28
# text = He left the guest-room, and presently returned with a white paper-fan, on which a silkworm-moth was sleepily reposing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	silkworm	silkworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	sleepily	sleepily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
26	reposing	repose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Niimi | the guest room |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | participle | Niimi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a white paper fan; presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | a silkworm moth |  |  |  |  | which *obl*; sleepily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **repose** | gerund | a silkworm moth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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