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title: We picked our way between the rain-pools and between the green ridge… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: We picked our way between the rain-pools and between the green ridges of young potatoes,—whose roots were doubtless feeding on the sub-stance of many another O-Tsuyu and O-Yoné;—and we reached at last two lichen-eaten tombs of which the inscriptions seemed almost obliterated. Who acts: We, roots, in
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 126

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We picked our way between the rain-pools and between the green ridges of young potatoes,—whose roots were doubtless feeding on the sub-stance of many another O-Tsuyu and O-Yoné;—and we reached at last two lichen-eaten tombs of which the inscriptions seemed almost obliterated.

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**Who acts:** We, roots, inscriptions · **What happens:** pick, be, feed, reach, eat, seem · **To what, where:** way, last two eaten tombs

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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 (We, roots, inscriptions), 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:pg8128:7:127
# text = We picked our way between the rain-pools and between the green ridges of young potatoes,—whose roots were doubtless feeding on the sub-stance of many another O-Tsuyu and O-Yoné;—and we reached at last two lichen-eaten tombs of which the inscriptions seemed almost obliterated.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
24	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sub-stance	sub-stance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
30	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
31	O	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
44	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
45	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
46	lichen	lichen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	amod	_	_
49	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	obl	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
54	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
55	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	obliterated	obliterate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | past | We | our way |  |  |  | between the rain pools and the green ridges of young potatoes | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | roots |  |  |  |  | doubtless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **feed** | gerund | roots *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the sub-stance of another many O Tsuyu Yoné | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on sub-stance=Patient |
| 4 | **reach** | past | we |  |  | last two eaten tombs |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | lichen *compound* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **seem** | past | the inscriptions |  |  |  |  | of last two eaten tombs | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **obliterate** | participle | the inscriptions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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