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title: Feeling at last certain that further research would be useless, he t… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Feeling at last certain that further research would be useless, he turned homeward by the shortest way, which happened to lead through the grounds of the temple Shin-Banzui-In. Who acts: further research, Shitaya, shortest way. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Use
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 51

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Feeling at last certain that further research would be useless, he turned homeward by the shortest way, which happened to lead through the grounds of the temple Shin-Banzui-In.

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**Who acts:** further research, Shitaya, shortest way · **What happens:** feel, be, turn, happen, lead · **To what, where:** last certain, homeward, grounds

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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 (further research, Shitaya, shortest way), 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:pg8128:6:51
# text = Feeling at last certain that further research would be useless, he turned homeward by the shortest way, which happened to lead through the grounds of the temple Shin-Banzui-In.
1	Feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	shortest	short	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	Shin	Shin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Banzui	Banzui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	In	in	ADP	IN	_	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  | last certain |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at certain=Location |
| 2 | **is** | would | further research |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | past | Shitaya | homeward |  |  |  | by the shortest way | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme |
| 4 | **happen** | past | the shortest way |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lead** | to-infinitive | the shortest way *not said here* |  |  | the grounds of the temple |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through grounds=Destination |

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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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