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title: I looked, and saw that the antennae, very short and feathery, were s… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I looked, and saw that the antennae, very short and feathery, were so arched back over the two jewel-specks of eyes in the velvety head, as to give the appearance of a really handsome pair of eyebrows. Who acts: I. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, w
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 32

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I looked, and saw that the antennae, very short and feathery, were so arched back over the two jewel-specks of eyes in the velvety head, as to give the appearance of a really handsome pair of eyebrows.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** look, see, arch back, give · **To what, where:** antennae, two jewel specks, appearance

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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 (I), 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:pg8128:4:32
# text = I looked, and saw that the antennae, very short and feathery, were so arched back over the two jewel-specks of eyes in the velvety head, as to give the appearance of a really handsome pair of eyebrows.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	antennae	antennae	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	feathery	feathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	arched	arch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	velvety	velvety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	really	really	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **arch back** | past · passive |  | the antennae |  | the two jewel specks of eyes in the velvety head |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | the appearance of a handsome pair of eyebrows |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=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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