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title: In Niimi’s neighborhood, where there are plenty of mulberrytrees, ma… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: In Niimi’s neighborhood, where there are plenty of mulberrytrees, many families keep silkworms;—the tending and feeding being mostly done by women and children. Who acts: many families, women. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, with its dependency tre
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 34

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In Niimi’s neighborhood, where there are plenty of mulberrytrees, many families keep silkworms;—the tending and feeding being mostly done by women and children.

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**Who acts:** many families, women · **What happens:** be, keep, feed, do · **To what, where:** plenty, neighborhood, silkworms

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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 (many families, women), 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:pg8128:4:34
# text = In Niimi’s neighborhood, where there are plenty of mulberrytrees, many families keep silkworms;—the tending and feeding being mostly done by women and children.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Niimi	Niimi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mulberrytrees	mulberrytree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tending	tending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | plenty and the tending |  | Niimi's neighborhood |  | of mulberrytrees; the tending *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | many families | silkworms |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silkworm=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | gerund · passive | women and children |  |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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