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title: Then he decorated his house, and prepared everything for the festiva… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he decorated his house, and prepared everything for the festival;—hanging out the lanterns that guide the returning spirits, and setting the food of ghosts on the _shōryōdana_, or Shelf of Souls. Who acts: Shinzaburō, lanterns. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incens
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 65

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Then he decorated his house, and prepared everything for the festival;—hanging out the lanterns that guide the returning spirits, and setting the food of ghosts on the \_shōryōdana\_, or Shelf of Souls.

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburō, lanterns · **What happens:** decorate, hang out, guide, return, set · **To what, where:** house, lanterns, returning spirits, food, shōryōdana

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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, lanterns), 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:pg8128:5:66
# text = Then he decorated his house, and prepared everything for the festival;—hanging out the lanterns that guide the returning spirits, and setting the food of ghosts on the _shōryōdana_, or Shelf of Souls.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	guide	guide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	shōryōdana	shōryōdana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decorate** | past | Shinzaburō | Shinzaburō's house |  |  | then | everything for the festival *conj* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Destination |
| 2 | **hang out** | gerund | Shinzaburō *not said here* | the lanterns |  |  |  | Shelf of Souls *obl* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Patient |
| 3 | **guide** | present | the lanterns | the returning spirits |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |
| 4 | **return** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **set** | gerund | Shinzaburō *not said here* | the food of ghosts |  | the shōryōdana |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme on shōryōdana=Destination |

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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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