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title: As they approach maturity, the creatures need almost constant attent… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: As they approach maturity, the creatures need almost constant attention. Who acts: trays, creatures. 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 37

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As they approach maturity, the creatures need almost constant attention.

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**Who acts:** trays, creatures · **What happens:** approach, need · **To what, where:** maturity, constant attention

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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 (trays, creatures), 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:pg8128:4:37
# text = As they approach maturity, the creatures need almost constant attention.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	approach	approach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	maturity	maturity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | present | trays *= tray* | maturity |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maturity=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | the creatures | constant attention |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot attention=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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