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title: And she made her face so frightful as she spoke that Tomozō nearly d… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And she made her face so frightful as she spoke that Tomozō nearly died of terror. Who acts: evil, Tomozō. 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 19

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And she made her face so frightful as she spoke that Tomozō nearly died of terror.

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**Who acts:** evil, Tomozō · **What happens:** make, speak, die · **To what, where:** face · **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 (evil, Tomozō), 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:pg8128:7:19
# text = And she made her face so frightful as she spoke that Tomozō nearly died of terror.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Tomozō	Tomozō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | evil | evil's face |  |  |  | frightful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Product |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | evil |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** | past | Tomozō |  |  |  |  | of terror; nearly *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of terror=Causer |

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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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