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description: Here and there we found it necessary to condense the original narrative; and we tried to keep close to the text only in the conversational passages,—some of which happen to possess a particular quality of psychological interest. Who acts: we, some. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn,
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 9

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Here and there we found it necessary to condense the original narrative; and we tried to keep close to the text only in the conversational passages,—some of which happen to possess a particular quality of psychological interest.

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**Who acts:** we, some · **What happens:** find, condense, try, keep, happen, possess · **To what, where:** summary, original narrative, conversational passages, particular quality · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we, some), 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:pg8128:5:9
# text = Here and there we found it necessary to condense the original narrative; and we tried to keep close to the text only in the conversational passages,—some of which happen to possess a particular quality of psychological interest.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	condense	condense	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	csubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	conversational	conversational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nmod	_	_
33	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	psychological	psychological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | we | summary |  | here; there |  | necessary *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **condense** | to-infinitive |  | the original narrative |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent narrative=Patient |
| 3 | **try** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | the conversational passages |  | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in passage=Location |
| 5 | **happen** | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **possess** | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | a particular quality of psychological interest |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot quality=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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