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title: Surprises of this kind I had met with elsewhere in Japan. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Surprises of this kind I had met with elsewhere in Japan. Who acts: Surprises. 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 125

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Surprises of this kind I had met with elsewhere in Japan.

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**Who acts:** Surprises · **What happens:** meet · **To what, where:** Japan

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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 (Surprises), 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:pg8128:7:126
# text = Surprises of this kind I had met with elsewhere in Japan.
1	Surprises	surprise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · perfect | Surprises |  |  | Japan |  | of this kind; I *nsubj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with elsewhere=Co-Agent |

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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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