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title: Shinzaburō long remained stupefied with grief by the news of O-Tsuyu… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Shinzaburō long remained stupefied with grief by the news of O-Tsuyu’s death. Who acts: news, O Tsuyu. 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 61

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Shinzaburō long remained stupefied with grief by the news of O-Tsuyu’s death.

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**Who acts:** news, O Tsuyu · **What happens:** stupefy, die · **To what, where:** Shinzaburō

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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 (news, O 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:pg8128:5:62
# text = Shinzaburō long remained stupefied with grief by the news of O-Tsuyu’s death.
1	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	stupefied	stupefy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stupefy** | past · passive | the news of O Tsuyu's death | Shinzaburō |  |  |  | with grief; long *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **die** |  | O Tsuyu |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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