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title: [15] According to the old Japanese way of counting time, this _yatsu… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [15] According to the old Japanese way of counting time, this _yatsudoki_ or eighth hour was the same as our two o’clock in the morning. Who acts: old Japanese way, yatsudoki. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 113

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\[15\] According to the old Japanese way of counting time, this \_yatsudoki\_ or eighth hour was the same as our two o’clock in the morning.

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**Who acts:** old Japanese way, yatsudoki · **What happens:** accord, count, be

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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 (old Japanese way, yatsudoki), 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:pg8128:6:114
# text = [15] According to the old Japanese way of counting time, this _yatsudoki_ or eighth hour was the same as our two o’clock in the morning.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	yatsudoki	yatsudoki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **count** | gerund | the old Japanese way *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | this yatsudoki or eighth hour |  |  |  |  | as our two o’clock in the morning; same *property* | tree rules |

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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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