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title: Should the truth prove to be what Tomozō imagined, then the young sa… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Should the truth prove to be what Tomozō imagined, then the young samurai was a doomed man. Who acts: truth, Tomozō, young samurai. 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 23

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Should the truth prove to be what Tomozō imagined, then the young samurai was a doomed man.

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**Who acts:** truth, Tomozō, young samurai · **What happens:** prove, be, imagine, doom · **To what, where:** doomed man

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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 (truth, Tomozō, young samurai), 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:pg8128:6:23
# text = Should the truth prove to be what Tomozō imagined, then the young samurai was a doomed man.
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
8	Tomozō	Tomozō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	samurai	samurai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | should | the truth |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **imagine** | past | Tomozō |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **doom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the young samurai | a doomed man |  |  | then |  | 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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