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title: Everything—excepting the potato-patches—seemed to have been neglecte… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything—excepting the potato-patches—seemed to have been neglected for years. Who acts: potato patches. 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 122

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Everything—excepting the potato-patches—seemed to have been neglected for years.

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**Who acts:** potato patches · **What happens:** except, seem, neglect · **To what, where:** potato patches, Everything

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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 (potato patches), 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:pg8128:7:123
# text = Everything—excepting the potato-patches—seemed to have been neglected for years.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	appos	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	neglected	neglect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **except** | gerund |  | the potato patches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the potato patches *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **neglect** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | the potato patches *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S\_INF» |

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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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