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title: And she gave Tomozō a cunning counsel,—telling him to make condition… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And she gave Tomozō a cunning counsel,—telling him to make conditions with the dead. Who acts: passion. 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 26

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And she gave Tomozō a cunning counsel,—telling him to make conditions with the dead.

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**Who acts:** passion · **What happens:** give, tell, make · **To what, where:** cunning counsel, Tomozō, conditions · **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 (passion), 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:pg8128:7:26
# text = And she gave Tomozō a cunning counsel,—telling him to make conditions with the dead.
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	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Tomozō	Tomozō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | passion | a cunning counsel | Tomozō |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tomozō=Recipient counsel=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | passion *not said here* |  | Tomozō |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | passion *not said here* | conditions |  |  |  | with the dead | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset condition=Product |

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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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