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description: Shinzaburō was an unusually handsome lad, and very gentle; and the two young people fell in love with each other at sight. Who acts: Shinzaburō, two young people. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 18

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Shinzaburō was an unusually handsome lad, and very gentle; and the two young people fell in love with each other at sight.

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburō, two young people · **What happens:** be, fall · **To what, where:** handsome lad, love

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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 (Shinzaburō, two young people), 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:pg8128:5:18
# text = Shinzaburō was an unusually handsome lad, and very gentle; and the two young people fell in love with each other at sight.
1	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	unusually	unusually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	17	obl	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Shinzaburō | a handsome lad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the two young people |  |  | love |  | with each; at sight | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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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