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title: Shinzaburō was dead—hideously dead;—and his face was the face of a m… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Shinzaburō was dead—hideously dead;—and his face was the face of a man who had died in the uttermost agony of fear;—and lying beside him in the bed were the bones of a woman! Who acts: Shinzaburō, face, man, lying. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5, w
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 68

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Shinzaburō was dead—hideously dead;—and his face was the face of a man who had died in the uttermost agony of fear;—and lying beside him in the bed were the bones of a woman!

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburō, face, man, lying · **What happens:** be, die, lie · **To what, where:** face, bed, bones

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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 (Shinzaburō, face, man, lying), 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:pg8128:7:68
# text = Shinzaburō was dead—hideously dead;—and his face was the face of a man who had died in the uttermost agony of fear;—and lying beside him in the bed were the bones of a woman!
1	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	hideously	hideously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	uttermost	uttermost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
30	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	csubj	_	_
31	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Shinzaburō *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hideously *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Tomozō's face | the face |  |  |  | of a man | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** | past · perfect | a man |  |  |  |  | in the uttermost agony of fear | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in agony=Attribute |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the bed |  | beside Tomozō | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
| 6 | **is a** | past | lying | the bones |  |  |  | of a woman | 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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