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title: At last he heard the boom of the great temple-bell of Dentsu-In anno… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he heard the boom of the great temple-bell of Dentsu-In announcing the eighth hour. Who acts: sleep. 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 111

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At last he heard the boom of the great temple-bell of Dentsu-In announcing the eighth hour.

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**Who acts:** sleep · **What happens:** hear, announce, boom · **To what, where:** boom, last, great temple bell

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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 (sleep), 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:pg8128:6:112
# text = At last he heard the boom of the great temple-bell of Dentsu-In announcing the eighth hour.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Dentsu	Dentsu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	announcing	announce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | sleep | the boom of the great temple bell of Dentsu |  | last |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer boom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | gerund | sleep *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **boom** |  |  | the great temple bell of Dentsu |  |  |  |  | nom boom «event 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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