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title: [8] The color and form of the dress, and the style of wearing the ha… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [8] The color and form of the dress, and the style of wearing the hair, are by Japanese custom regulated according to the age of the woman. Who acts: style, Japanese custom. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 144

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\[8\] The color and form of the dress, and the style of wearing the hair, are by Japanese custom regulated according to the age of the woman.

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**Who acts:** style, Japanese custom · **What happens:** wear, be, regulate, accord · **To what, where:** hair, 8

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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 (style, Japanese custom), 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:pg8128:5:145
# text = [8] The color and form of the dress, and the style of wearing the hair, are by Japanese custom regulated according to the age of the woman.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	regulated	regulate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	case	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | gerund | the style *not said here* | the hair |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by Japanese custom | tree rules |
| 3 | **regulate** | past | Japanese custom | 8 and the style |  |  | accord the age of the woman |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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