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title: “Most assuredly I would—nay, I should be glad of the chance. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Most assuredly I would—nay, I should be glad of the chance. Who acts: Shinzaburō. 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 2

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“Most assuredly I would—nay, I should be glad of the chance.

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburō · **What happens:** —, 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 (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:pg8128:6:2
# text = “Most assuredly I would—nay, I should be glad of the chance.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nsubj	_	_
3	assuredly	assuredly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	—	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **—** *in a quote* | would | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  | assuredly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | should | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  | of the chance; glad *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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