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description: _ But Tomozō went out to meet them in the dark, and even found courage to say to them what his wife had told him to say:— Who acts: _, courage, wife. 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 28

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\_ But Tomozō went out to meet them in the dark, and even found courage to say to them what his wife had told him to say:—

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**Who acts:** \_, courage, wife · **What happens:** go out, meet, find, say, tell · **To what, where:** conditions, dark, courage, wife, \_ · **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 (\_, courage, wife), 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:pg8128:7:28
# text = _ But Tomozō went out to meet them in the dark, and even found courage to say to them what his wife had told him to say:—
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Tomozō	Tomozō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | \_ but Tomozō |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | \_ but Tomozō *not said here* | conditions *= condition* |  | the dark |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | \_ but Tomozō *not said here* | courage |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent courage=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | courage *not said here* |  | conditions *= condition* |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to they=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | Tomozō's wife | \_ |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tomozō's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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