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title: This would seem to be the grave of some innkeeper of Nedzu, named Ki… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: This would seem to be the grave of some innkeeper of Nedzu, named Kichibei. Who acts: This. 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 132

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This would seem to be the grave of some innkeeper of Nedzu, named Kichibei.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** seem, be, name · **To what, where:** grave, Nedzu

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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 (This), 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:pg8128:7:133
# text = This would seem to be the grave of some innkeeper of Nedzu, named Kichibei.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Nedzu	Nedzu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	Kichibei	Kichibei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | would | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | the grave |  |  |  | of some innkeeper of Nedzu | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  | Nedzu *not said here* |  |  |  | Kichibei *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «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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