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title: They told you—those people—that they were residing in the district o… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: They told you—those people—that they were residing in the district of Shitaya, in Yanaka-no-Sasaki. Who acts: hands. 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 42

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They told you—those people—that they were residing in the district of Shitaya, in Yanaka-no-Sasaki.

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** tell, reside · **To what, where:** people, district · **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: who acts (hands), 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:pg8128:6:42
# text = They told you—those people—that they were residing in the district of Shitaya, in Yanaka-no-Sasaki.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	residing	reside	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Shitaya	Shitaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Yanaka	Yanaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Sasaki	Sasaki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | hands *= hand* |  | that people |  |  | you *iobj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient people=Topic |
| 2 | **reside** | past · progressive | hands *= hand* |  |  | the district of Shitaya |  | in Yanaka and no Sasaki | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in district=Location |

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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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