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title: Iijima took a second wife when his daughter was about sixteen; and,… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Iijima took a second wife when his daughter was about sixteen; and, finding that O-Tsuyu could not be happy with her mother-in-law, he had a pretty villa built for the girl at Yanagijima, as a separate residence, and gave her an excellent maidservant, called O-Yoné, to wait upon her. Who acts: Iijim
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 13

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Iijima took a second wife when his daughter was about sixteen; and, finding that O-Tsuyu could not be happy with her mother-in-law, he had a pretty villa built for the girl at Yanagijima, as a separate residence, and gave her an excellent maidservant, called O-Yoné, to wait upon her.

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**Who acts:** Iijima, daughter, name, O Tsuyu · **What happens:** take, be, find, not be, have, build · **To what, where:** second wife, sixteen, pretty villa, excellent maidservant, Tsuyu · **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 (Iijima, daughter, name, O 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:pg8128:5:13
# text = Iijima took a second wife when his daughter was about sixteen; and, finding that O-Tsuyu could not be happy with her mother-in-law, he had a pretty villa built for the girl at Yanagijima, as a separate residence, and gave her an excellent maidservant, called O-Yoné, to wait upon her.
1	Iijima	Iijima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	villa	villa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Yanagijima	Yanagijima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	iobj	_	_
52	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
56	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl	_	_
57	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
63	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Iijima |  | a second wife |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | name's daughter | sixteen |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | gerund | name *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | could | O Tsuyu |  |  |  |  | with Tsuyu's mother in law; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | name | a pretty villa |  |  |  | as a separate residence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent villa=Patient |
| 6 | **build** | participle |  | a pretty villa *not said here* |  |  |  | for the girl at Yanagijima | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for girl=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **give** | past |  | a excellent maidservant | Tsuyu |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient maidservant=Theme |
| 8 | **call** | participle |  | a excellent maidservant *not said here* |  |  |  | O and Yoné *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **wait** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon Tsuyu | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location |

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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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