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title: [9] Then he determined at all hazards to get one glimpse of her face… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [9] Then he determined at all hazards to get one glimpse of her face; and he crept round the house, backwards and forwards, peering through every crack and chink. Who acts: Tomozō. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 11

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\[9\] Then he determined at all hazards to get one glimpse of her face; and he crept round the house, backwards and forwards, peering through every crack and chink.

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**Who acts:** Tomozō · **What happens:** determine, get, creep, peer, chink, glimpse · **To what, where:** 9, hazards, one glimpse, house, face

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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 (Tomozō), 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:pg8128:6:11
# text = [9] Then he determined at all hazards to get one glimpse of her face; and he crept round the house, backwards and forwards, peering through every crack and chink.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	hazards	hazard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	round	round	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	forwards	forwards	ADV	RB	_	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	peering	peer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	chink	chink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | Tomozō | 9 |  | all hazards | then |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Tomozō *not said here* | one glimpse of woman's face |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus |
| 3 | **creep** | past | Tomozō |  |  | the house |  | backwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory |
| 4 | **peer** | gerund | Tomozō *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through every crack | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through crack=Theme |
| 5 | **chink** | infinitive | Tomozō *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **glimpse** |  |  | woman's face |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=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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