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title: With Yusai’s advice and help, Shinzaburō was able before dark to fix… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: With Yusai’s advice and help, Shinzaburō was able before dark to fix the holy texts over all the apertures of his dwelling. Who acts: Shinzaburō. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 104

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With Yusai’s advice and help, Shinzaburō was able before dark to fix the holy texts over all the apertures of his dwelling.

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburō · **What happens:** be, fix · **To what, where:** holy texts, apertures

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg8128:6:105
# text = With Yusai’s advice and help, Shinzaburō was able before dark to fix the holy texts over all the apertures of his dwelling.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Yusai	Yusai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	apertures	aperture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Shinzaburō |  |  |  | before dark | with Yusai's advice and help; able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | to-infinitive | Shinzaburō *not said here* | the holy texts |  | all apertures of Yusai's dwelling |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent text=Patient |

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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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