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title: Shinzaburō remembered that the peony-lantern carried by O-Yoné was e… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Shinzaburō remembered that the peony-lantern carried by O-Yoné was exactly similar; and the coincidence impressed him as strange. Who acts: Shinzaburō, peony lantern, coincidence. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 54

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Shinzaburō remembered that the peony-lantern carried by O-Yoné was exactly similar; and the coincidence impressed him as strange.

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburō, peony lantern, coincidence · **What happens:** remember, carry, be, impress · **To what, where:** peony lantern, lantern · **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 (Shinzaburō, peony lantern, coincidence), 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:pg8128:6:54
# text = Shinzaburō remembered that the peony-lantern carried by O-Yoné was exactly similar; and the coincidence impressed him as strange.
1	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	peony	peony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	coincidence	coincidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	impressed	impress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | participle |  | the peony lantern *not said here* |  |  |  | by O and Yoné | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the peony lantern |  |  |  |  | exactly, similar *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **impress** | past | the coincidence | lantern |  |  |  | as strange | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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