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title: Then Shinzaburö, feeling curious, stood on tiptoe, so as to look ove… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Shinzaburö, feeling curious, stood on tiptoe, so as to look over the hedge; and he saw two women passing. Who acts: Shinzaburö, two women. 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 74

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Then Shinzaburö, feeling curious, stood on tiptoe, so as to look over the hedge; and he saw two women passing.

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburö, two women · **What happens:** feel, stand, look, see, pass · **To what, where:** tiptoe, two women

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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 (Shinzaburö, two women), 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:pg8128:5:75
# text = Then Shinzaburö, feeling curious, stood on tiptoe, so as to look over the hedge; and he saw two women passing.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	Shinzaburö	Shinzaburö	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund | Shinzaburö *not said here* |  |  |  |  | curious *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Shinzaburö |  |  | tiptoe | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Shinzaburö *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over the hedge | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over hedge=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | Shinzaburö | two women |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pass** | gerund | two women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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