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title: He rolled back the rumbling shutters to admit the light; but still w… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: He rolled back the rumbling shutters to admit the light; but still within the house there was no stir. Who acts: Tomozō, rumbling. 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 65

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He rolled back the rumbling shutters to admit the light; but still within the house there was no stir.

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**Who acts:** Tomozō, rumbling · **What happens:** roll back, shutter, admit, be · **To what, where:** light, stir

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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 (Tomozō, rumbling), 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:pg8128:7:65
# text = He rolled back the rumbling shutters to admit the light; but still within the house there was no stir.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shutters	shutter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	stir	stir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll back** | past | Tomozō |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shutter** | present | the rumbling |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **admit** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the rumbling *not said here* | the light |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | no stir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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