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title: Veiling their faces with their sleeves they rose and passed, like a… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 59

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Veiling their faces with their sleeves they rose and passed, like a streaming of vapor, into the little window from over which the holy text had been torn away.

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**Who acts:** visitants · **What happens:** veil, rise, pass, tear away · **To what, where:** faces, little window, holy text

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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 (visitants), 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:pg8128:7:59
# text = Veiling their faces with their sleeves they rose and passed, like a streaming of vapor, into the little window from over which the holy text had been torn away.
1	Veiling	veil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	streaming	streaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	vapor	vapor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	over	over	ADV	RB	_	30	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **veil** | gerund | visitants *= visitant* *not said here* | visitants's faces |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination |
| 2 | **rise** | past | visitants *= visitant* |  |  |  |  | with visitants's sleeves | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass** | past | visitants *= visitant* *not said here* |  |  | the little window |  | like a streaming of vapor | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into window=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **tear away** | past · perfect · passive |  | the holy text |  |  |  | the little window *obj*; away *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient which=Result |

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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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