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title: Ryōseki, without waiting to hear the purpose of the old man’s visit,… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Ryōseki, without waiting to hear the purpose of the old man’s visit, at once invited him into a private apartment. Who acts: Ryōseki, visit, old man. 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 76

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Ryōseki, without waiting to hear the purpose of the old man’s visit, at once invited him into a private apartment.

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**Who acts:** Ryōseki, visit, old man · **What happens:** wait, hear, invite, purpose, visit · **To what, where:** purpose, Ryōseki, private apartment

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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 (Ryōseki, visit, old man), 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:pg8128:7:76
# text = Ryōseki, without waiting to hear the purpose of the old man’s visit, at once invited him into a private apartment.
1	Ryōseki	Ryōseki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
18	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund | Ryōseki |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Ryōseki *not said here* | the purpose of the old man's visit |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer purpose=Stimulus |
| 3 | **invite** | past | Ryōseki *not said here* |  | Ryōseki | a private apartment |  | once *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **purpose** |  | the old man's visit |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **visit** |  | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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