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title: But he could not find anything resembling the little house mentioned… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But he could not find anything resembling the little house mentioned by O-Yoné; and none of the people whom he questioned knew of any house in the quarter inhabited by two single women. Who acts: Shitaya, none. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 50

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But he could not find anything resembling the little house mentioned by O-Yoné; and none of the people whom he questioned knew of any house in the quarter inhabited by two single women.

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**Who acts:** Shitaya, none · **What happens:** not find, resemble, mention, question, know, inhabit · **To what, where:** anything, little house, people, quarter · **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 (Shitaya, none), 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:pg8128:6:50
# text = But he could not find anything resembling the little house mentioned by O-Yoné; and none of the people whom he questioned knew of any house in the quarter inhabited by two single women.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	resembling	resemble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
35	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **find** | could | Shitaya | anything |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent anything=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **resemble** | gerund |  | the little house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle |  | the little house *not said here* |  |  |  | by O and Yoné | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **question** *speech: other* | past | Shitaya |  | the people |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient |
| 5 | **know** | past | none of the people |  |  | the quarter |  | of any house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of house=Stimulus |
| 6 | **inhabit** | participle |  | the quarter *not said here* |  |  |  | by two single women | 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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