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title: Almost at the same instant both women turned their faces toward Shin… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost at the same instant both women turned their faces toward Shinzaburō;—and to his utter astonishment, he recognized O-Tsuyu and her servant O-Yoné. Who acts: same instant, Lantern, Shinzaburō. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependenc
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 76

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Almost at the same instant both women turned their faces toward Shinzaburō;—and to his utter astonishment, he recognized O-Tsuyu and her servant O-Yoné.

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**Who acts:** same instant, Lantern, Shinzaburō · **What happens:** turn, recognize, astonish · **To what, where:** faces, Shinzaburō, O

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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 (same instant, Lantern, 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:pg8128:5:77
# text = Almost at the same instant both women turned their faces toward Shinzaburō;—and to his utter astonishment, he recognized O-Tsuyu and her servant O-Yoné.
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the same instant | women's faces |  | Shinzaburō |  | both women *nsubj*; almost *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme toward shinzaburō=Trajectory |
| 2 | **recognize** | past | Lantern | O and Tsuyu and Tsuyu's servant of Yoné |  |  |  | to Shinzaburō's utter astonishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer o=Stimulus |
| 3 | **astonish** |  | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: 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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