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title: [1] The _hatamoto_ were samurai forming the special military force o… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] The _hatamoto_ were samurai forming the special military force of the Shōgun. Who acts: hatamoto. 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 14

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\[1\] The \_hatamoto\_ were samurai forming the special military force of the Shōgun.

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**Who acts:** hatamoto · **What happens:** form · **To what, where:** special military force

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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 (hatamoto), 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:pg8128:5:14
# text = [1] The _hatamoto_ were samurai forming the special military force of the Shōgun.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	hatamoto	hatamoto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	samurai	samurai	ADV	FW	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Shōgun	Shōgun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past · progressive | the hatamoto | the special military force of the Shōgun |  |  |  | 1 *discourse*; samurai *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location force=Theme |

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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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