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title: He feared that Shinzaburō, being very gentle and affectionate, might… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: He feared that Shinzaburō, being very gentle and affectionate, might be made the dupe of some cunning wanton,—in which event the domestics would be the first to suffer. Who acts: Tomozō, domestics. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependenc
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 136

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He feared that Shinzaburō, being very gentle and affectionate, might be made the dupe of some cunning wanton,—in which event the domestics would be the first to suffer.

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**Who acts:** Tomozō, domestics · **What happens:** fear, be, make, suffer · **To what, where:** Shinzaburō, event · **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 (Tomozō, domestics), 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:pg8128:5:137
# text = He feared that Shinzaburō, being very gentle and affectionate, might be made the dupe of some cunning wanton,—in which event the domestics would be the first to suffer.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
4	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dupe	dupe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wanton	wanton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	25	det	_	_
25	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	domestics	domestic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	xcomp	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | Tomozō |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | might · passive |  | Shinzaburō |  |  |  | the dupe of some cunning wanton *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary dupe=Product |
| 5 | **is** | would | the domestics |  |  | which event |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **suffer** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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