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title: —_This is the story of the Ghosts in the Romance of the Peony-Lanter… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: —_This is the story of the Ghosts in the Romance of the Peony-Lantern:_— Who acts: This. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 10

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—\_This is the story of the Ghosts in the Romance of the Peony-Lantern:\_—

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** story

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg8128:5:10
# text = —_This is the story of the Ghosts in the Romance of the Peony-Lantern:_—
1	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Ghosts	Ghost	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Romance	Romance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Peony	Peony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the story |  |  |  | of the Ghosts in the Romance of the Peony Lantern | tree rules |

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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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