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title: There once lived in the district of Ushigomé, in Yedo, a _hatamoto_[… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: There once lived in the district of Ushigomé, in Yedo, a _hatamoto_[1] called Iijima Heizayémon, whose only daughter, Tsuyu, was beautiful as her name, which signifies “Morning Dew.” Who acts: name, Tsuyu. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its d
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 12

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There once lived in the district of Ushigomé, in Yedo, a \_hatamoto\_\[1\] called Iijima Heizayémon, whose only daughter, Tsuyu, was beautiful as her name, which signifies “Morning Dew.”

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**Who acts:** name, Tsuyu · **What happens:** live, call, be, signify, name · **To what, where:** district, Yedo, Morning Dew · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (name, Tsuyu), 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:pg8128:5:12
# text = There once lived in the district of Ushigomé, in Yedo, a _hatamoto_[1] called Iijima Heizayémon, whose only daughter, Tsuyu, was beautiful as her name, which signifies “Morning Dew.”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ushigomé	Ushigomé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Yedo	Yedo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	hatamoto	hatamoto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
21	Iijima	Iijima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
22	Heizayémon	Heizayémon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	signifies	signify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | the district of Ushigomé; there |  | in Yedo; once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in district=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | Yedo *not said here* |  |  |  | 1 *discourse*; Iijima and Iijima and Iijima's daughter and Tsuyu's daughter and Tsuyu *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as Tsuyu's name; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **signify** | present | Tsuyu's name | Morning Dew |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dew=Theme |
| 5 | **name** |  | Tsuyu |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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