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title: “From the Japanese point of view, likewise,” my friend responded, “S… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “From the Japanese point of view, likewise,” my friend responded, “Shinzaburō is rather contemptible. Who acts: friend, Shinzaburō. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 114

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“From the Japanese point of view, likewise,” my friend responded, “Shinzaburō is rather contemptible.

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**Who acts:** friend, Shinzaburō · **What happens:** respond, be, point · **To what, where:** view · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, 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:pg8128:7:115
# text = “From the Japanese point of view, likewise,” my friend responded, “Shinzaburō is rather contemptible.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	From	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	responded	respond	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	contemptible	contemptible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | past | my friend |  |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  | contemptible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **point** *in a quote* |  |  | view |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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