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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 47

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Shinzaburō, startled though not convinced, resolved after a moment’s reflection to follow the advice of the \_ninsomi\_, and to go to Shitaya.

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburō · **What happens:** startle, resolve, follow, go · **To what, where:** advice, Shitaya

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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:pg8128:6:47
# text = Shinzaburō, startled though not convinced, resolved after a moment’s reflection to follow the advice of the _ninsomi_, and to go to Shitaya.
1	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	startled	startle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	though	though	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	convinced	convinced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	reflection	reflection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ninsomi	ninsomi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Shitaya	Shitaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **startle** | past | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  | convinced *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **resolve** | participle | Shinzaburō *not said here* |  |  |  | after a moment's reflection |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Shinzaburō *not said here* | the advice of the ninsomi |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | Shinzaburō *not said here* |  |  | Shitaya |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shitaya=Initial\_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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