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description: He went through every street and side-street, read all the names inscribed at the various entrances, and made inquiries whenever an opportunity presented itself. Who acts: Shitaya, opportunity. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency tr
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 49

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He went through every street and side-street, read all the names inscribed at the various entrances, and made inquiries whenever an opportunity presented itself.

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**Who acts:** Shitaya, opportunity · **What happens:** go, read, inscribe, make, present · **To what, where:** street, names, various entrances, inquiries, opportunity

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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 (Shitaya, opportunity), 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:pg8128:6:49
# text = He went through every street and side-street, read all the names inscribed at the various entrances, and made inquiries whenever an opportunity presented itself.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	entrances	entrance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Shitaya |  |  | every street and side street |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **read** | infinitive | Shitaya *not said here* | all names |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 3 | **inscribe** | participle |  | all names *not said here* |  | the various entrances |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent at entrance=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past | Shitaya *not said here* | inquiries |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product |
| 5 | **present** | past | a opportunity | opportunity |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |

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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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