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description: Now there was a man called Tomozō, who lived in a small cottage adjoining Shinzaburō’s residence, Tomozō and his wife O-Miné were both employed by Shinzaburō as servants. Who acts: man, small cottage, Shinzaburō. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, wit
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 133

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Now there was a man called Tomozō, who lived in a small cottage adjoining Shinzaburō’s residence, Tomozō and his wife O-Miné were both employed by Shinzaburō as servants.

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**Who acts:** man, small cottage, Shinzaburō · **What happens:** be, call, live, adjoin, employ · **To what, where:** man, residence, Tomozō, small cottage · **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 (man, small cottage, Shinzaburō), 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:pg8128:5:134
# text = Now there was a man called Tomozō, who lived in a small cottage adjoining Shinzaburō’s residence, Tomozō and his wife O-Miné were both employed by Shinzaburō as servants.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	Tomozō	Tomozō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
15	adjoining	adjoin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Tomozō	Tomozō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Miné	Miné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	both	both	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a man |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | Tomozō *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | past | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **adjoin** | gerund | a small cottage *not said here* | Shinzaburō's residence |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme residence=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **employ** | past · passive | Shinzaburō | Tomozō and Tomozō's wife of Miné |  | a small cottage |  | as servants; both *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as servant=Attribute |

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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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