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title: “Well, mistress,” said O-Yoné, “you will wait,—will you not,—until t… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, mistress,” said O-Yoné, “you will wait,—will you not,—until to-morrow night?” Who acts: mistress, you. 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 50

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“Well, mistress,” said O-Yoné, “you will wait,—will you not,—until to-morrow night?”

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**Who acts:** mistress, you · **What happens:** say, wait · **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 (mistress, you), 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:pg8128:7:50
# text = “Well, mistress,” said O-Yoné, “you will wait,—will you not,—until to-morrow night?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Yoné	Yoné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	until	until	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | mistress |  |  |  | night | of Yoné | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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