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title: Never before—not even in what time she lived—had O-Tsuyu appeared so… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Never before—not even in what time she lived—had O-Tsuyu appeared so beautiful; and Shinzaburō felt his heart drawn towards her with a power almost resistless. Who acts: Yoné, O, Shinzaburō, heart. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependenc
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 123

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Never before—not even in what time she lived—had O-Tsuyu appeared so beautiful; and Shinzaburō felt his heart drawn towards her with a power almost resistless.

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**Who acts:** Yoné, O, Shinzaburō, heart · **What happens:** live, have, appear, feel, draw · **To what, where:** heart

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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 (Yoné, O, Shinzaburō, heart), 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:pg8128:6:124
# text = Never before—not even in what time she lived—had O-Tsuyu appeared so beautiful; and Shinzaburō felt his heart drawn towards her with a power almost resistless.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
26	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	resistless	resistless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Yoné |  |  |  | never; time | before *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Yoné *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **appear** | past | O and Tsuyu |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Shinzaburō | house's heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **draw** | participle | house's heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards Yoné; with a power | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards she=Destination |

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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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