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title: And in the meantime, Tomozō, say nothing to any other person,—not ev… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And in the meantime, Tomozō, say nothing to any other person,—not even to your wife,—about this matter. 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 30

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And in the meantime, Tomozō, say nothing to any other person,—not even to your wife,—about this matter.

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**What happens:** say · **To what, where:** nothing, other person, meantime · **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: 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:pg8128:6:30
# text = And in the meantime, Tomozō, say nothing to any other person,—not even to your wife,—about this matter.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Tomozō	Tomozō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | nothing | any other person | the meantime |  | your wife and this matter *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to person=Recipient |

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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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