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title: At last, in a night of storm, O-Yoné startled him from slumber with… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, in a night of storm, O-Yoné startled him from slumber with a cry of reproach, and stooped above his pillow, and said to him: “Have a care how you trifle with us! Who acts: Yoné, Tomozō, reproach. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5, with its de
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 17

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At last, in a night of storm, O-Yoné startled him from slumber with a cry of reproach, and stooped above his pillow, and said to him: “Have a care how you trifle with us!

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**Who acts:** Yoné, Tomozō, reproach · **What happens:** startle, stoop, say, have, trifle, cry · **To what, where:** Tomozō, slumber, pillow, care · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Yoné, Tomozō, reproach), 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:pg8128:7:17
# text = At last, in a night of storm, O-Yoné startled him from slumber with a cry of reproach, and stooped above his pillow, and said to him: “Have a care how you trifle with us!
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	startled	startle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	reproach	reproach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	above	above	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	trifle	trifle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **startle** | past | Yoné | Tomozō |  | slumber with a cry of reproach |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stoop** | past | Yoné *not said here* |  |  | Tomozō's pillow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above pillow=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past |  |  | Tomozō |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a care |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient |
| 5 | **trifle** *in a quote* | present | Tomozō |  |  |  |  | with us | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with we=Theme |
| 6 | **cry** |  | reproach |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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