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title: He was slowly recovering, but still very weak, when he unexpectedly… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: He was slowly recovering, but still very weak, when he unexpectedly received another visit from Yamamoto Shijō. Who acts: Shinzaburō. 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 34

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He was slowly recovering, but still very weak, when he unexpectedly received another visit from Yamamoto Shijō.

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburō · **What happens:** recover, receive · **To what, where:** visit, Yamamoto

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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), 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:pg8128:5:35
# text = He was slowly recovering, but still very weak, when he unexpectedly received another visit from Yamamoto Shijō.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	recovering	recover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	unexpectedly	unexpectedly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Yamamoto	Yamamoto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Shijō	Shijō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past · progressive | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **receive** | past | Shinzaburō | another visit |  | Yamamoto |  | unexpectedly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent visit=Theme from yamamoto=Source |

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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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