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title: I gladly accepted the suggestion; and we composed the following summ… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I gladly accepted the suggestion; and we composed the following summary of the more extraordinary portion of Enchō’s romance. Who acts: I, we, Enchō. 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 8

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I gladly accepted the suggestion; and we composed the following summary of the more extraordinary portion of Enchō’s romance.

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**Who acts:** I, we, Enchō · **What happens:** accept, compose, follow, romance · **To what, where:** suggestion, following summary

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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 (I, we, Enchō), 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:pg8128:5:8
# text = I gladly accepted the suggestion; and we composed the following summary of the more extraordinary portion of Enchō’s romance.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	composed	compose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	summary	summary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Enchō	Enchō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | I | the suggestion |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suggestion=Theme |
| 2 | **compose** | past | we | the following summary of the extraordinary portion of Enchō's romance |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summary=Result |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **romance** |  | Enchō |  |  |  |  |  | nom romance «state 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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