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title: Shinzaburō knew nothing of what had happened; but his disappointment… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Shinzaburō knew nothing of what had happened; but his disappointment and his anxiety had resulted in a prolonged illness. Who acts: Shinzaburō, disappointment. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 33

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Shinzaburō knew nothing of what had happened; but his disappointment and his anxiety had resulted in a prolonged illness.

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburō, disappointment · **What happens:** know, happen, result, prolong, disappoint · **To what, where:** nothing, prolonged illness

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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, disappointment), 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:pg8128:5:34
# text = Shinzaburō knew nothing of what had happened; but his disappointment and his anxiety had resulted in a prolonged illness.
1	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Shinzaburō | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **result** | past · perfect | Shinzaburō's disappointment and Shinzaburō's anxiety |  |  | a prolonged illness |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in illness=Location |
| 4 | **prolong** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **disappoint** |  | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappointment «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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