--- title: Hakuōdō Yusai, the fortune-teller, went to view the corpse at the pr… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: Hakuōdō Yusai, the fortune-teller, went to view the corpse at the prayer of the faithless Tomozō. Who acts: Hakuōdō, faithless Tomozō. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/7/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Names of Incense Used., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/7/) / 71 # In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 71 Hakuōdō Yusai, the fortune-teller, went to view the corpse at the prayer of the faithless Tomozō. **Who acts:** Hakuōdō, faithless Tomozō · **What happens:** go, view, pray · **To what, where:** corpse, prayer 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 (Hakuōdō, faithless Tomozō), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8128:7:71 # text = Hakuōdō Yusai, the fortune-teller, went to view the corpse at the prayer of the faithless Tomozō. 1 Hakuōdō Hakuōdō PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 Yusai Yusai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 teller teller NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 view view VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 corpse corpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 faithless faithless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Tomozō Tomozō PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Hakuōdō | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **view** | to-infinitive | Hakuōdō *not said here* | the corpse | | the prayer of the faithless Tomozō | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corpse=Stimulus | | 3 | **pray** | | the faithless Tomozō | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/7/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/7/72/) - ↑ back to [Names of Incense Used., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/7/)