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title: The doctor remained silent for a moment, as if collecting himself: t… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The doctor remained silent for a moment, as if collecting himself: then he resumed, in the quick light tone of a man resolved not to take trouble seriously:— Who acts: doctor, man. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 42

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The doctor remained silent for a moment, as if collecting himself: then he resumed, in the quick light tone of a man resolved not to take trouble seriously:—

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**Who acts:** doctor, man · **What happens:** remain, collect, resume, resolve, not take · **To what, where:** doctor, quick light tone, trouble

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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 (doctor, man), 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:pg8128:5:43
# text = The doctor remained silent for a moment, as if collecting himself: then he resumed, in the quick light tone of a man resolved not to take trouble seriously:—
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	resumed	resume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the doctor |  |  |  | moment | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **collect** | gerund | the doctor *not said here* | doctor |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **resume** | past | doctor | the quick light tone |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Eventuality |
| 4 | **resolve** | past | a man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **take** | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* | trouble |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |

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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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