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title: Yet the story of the terrified Tomozō both alarmed and amazed him. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet the story of the terrified Tomozō both alarmed and amazed him. Who acts: story. 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 20

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Yet the story of the terrified Tomozō both alarmed and amazed him.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** alarm, amaze · **To what, where:** story

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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 (story), 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:pg8128:6:20
# text = Yet the story of the terrified Tomozō both alarmed and amazed him.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Tomozō	Tomozō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	both	both	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	amazed	amaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alarm** | past | the story of the terrified Tomozō |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **amaze** | past | the story of the terrified Tomozō *not said here* | story |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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