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title: Months passed; and O-Tsuyu, little imagining the true cause of Shinz… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Months passed; and O-Tsuyu, little imagining the true cause of Shinzaburō’s neglect, believed that her love had been scorned. Who acts: Months, O Tsuyu, Shinzaburō, Tsuyu. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 29

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Months passed; and O-Tsuyu, little imagining the true cause of Shinzaburō’s neglect, believed that her love had been scorned.

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**Who acts:** Months, O Tsuyu, Shinzaburō, Tsuyu · **What happens:** pass, imagine, believe, scorn, cause, neglect · **To what, where:** true cause, love, neglect · **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 (Months, O Tsuyu, Shinzaburō, Tsuyu), 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:pg8128:5:30
# text = Months passed; and O-Tsuyu, little imagining the true cause of Shinzaburō’s neglect, believed that her love had been scorned.
1	Months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
5	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	imagining	imagine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	neglect	neglect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
19	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	scorned	scorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Months |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **imagine** | gerund | O Tsuyu *not said here* | the true cause of Shinzaburō's neglect |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cause=Theme |
| 3 | **believe** | past | O Tsuyu |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **scorn** | past · perfect · passive |  | Tsuyu's love |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **cause** |  |  | Shinzaburō's neglect |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **neglect** |  | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  |  | nom neglect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **love** |  | Tsuyu |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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