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title: To my thinking, the only attractive character in the story is that o… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: To my thinking, the only attractive character in the story is that of O-Yoné: type of the old-time loyal and loving servant,—intelligent, shrewd, full of resource,—faithful not only unto death, but beyond death…. Who acts: only attractive character, my. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio H
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 116

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To my thinking, the only attractive character in the story is that of O-Yoné: type of the old-time loyal and loving servant,—intelligent, shrewd, full of resource,—faithful not only unto death, but beyond death….

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**Who acts:** only attractive character, my · **What happens:** be, think, type · **To what, where:** type loyal servant, old time

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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 (only attractive character, my), 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:pg8128:7:117
# text = To my thinking, the only attractive character in the story is that of O-Yoné: type of the old-time loyal and loving servant,—intelligent, shrewd, full of resource,—faithful not only unto death, but beyond death….
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	thinking	thinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	shrewd	shrewd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	resource	resource	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
42	only	only	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	….	..	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the only attractive character in the story | type loyal servant but death |  |  |  | to my thinking; of O Yoné; death *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thinking «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **type** |  |  | the old time |  |  |  |  | nom type «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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