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title: They came again on the following night at the Hour of the Ox; and O-… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: They came again on the following night at the Hour of the Ox; and O-Miné hid herself on hearing the sound of their coming,—_karan-koron, karan-koron! Who acts: conditions, O. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 27

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They came again on the following night at the Hour of the Ox; and O-Miné hid herself on hearing the sound of their coming,—\_karan-koron, karan-koron!

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**Who acts:** conditions, O · **What happens:** come, follow, hide, hear · **To what, where:** Miné, sound

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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 (conditions, O), 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:pg8128:7:27
# text = They came again on the following night at the Hour of the Ox; and O-Miné hid herself on hearing the sound of their coming,—_karan-koron, karan-koron!
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Miné	Miné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	karan	karan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	koron	koron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	karan	karan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	koron	koron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | conditions *= condition* |  |  |  | again; night | karan koron and karan koron *parataxis* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | past | O and Miné | Miné |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 4 | **hear** | gerund | O and Miné *not said here* | the sound |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | conditions *= condition* | the sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |

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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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