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title: It ceased; and Shinzaburō suddenly heard the sound of _geta_ approac… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: It ceased; and Shinzaburō suddenly heard the sound of _geta_ approaching from the old direction,—but this time more slowly: _karan-koron, karan-koron! Who acts: o’clock, Shinzaburō. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency tree and the p
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 117

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It ceased; and Shinzaburō suddenly heard the sound of \_geta\_ approaching from the old direction,—but this time more slowly: \_karan-koron, karan-koron!

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**Who acts:** o’clock, Shinzaburō · **What happens:** cease, hear, approach · **To what, where:** sound, old direction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (o’clock, 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:pg8128:6:118
# text = It ceased; and Shinzaburō suddenly heard the sound of _geta_ approaching from the old direction,—but this time more slowly: _karan-koron, karan-koron!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	geta	geta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
14	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	ccomp	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	karan	karan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	koron	koron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	karan	karan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	koron	koron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past | o’clock *= o'clock* |  |  |  |  | karan koron and karan koron *parataxis*; slowly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Shinzaburō | the sound of geta |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **approach** | gerund |  |  |  | the old direction |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from direction=Initial\_Location |

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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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