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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 9

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And taking O-Tsuyu by the hand, she led her away toward the rear of the dwelling; and there the two disappeared as suddenly as the light disappears when the flame of a lamp is blown out.

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**Who acts:** way, light, lamp · **What happens:** take, lead away, disappear, blow out, flame · **To what, where:** O, Tsuyu, rear, flame

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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 (way, light, lamp), 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:pg8128:7:9
# text = And taking O-Tsuyu by the hand, she led her away toward the rear of the dwelling; and there the two disappeared as suddenly as the light disappears when the flame of a lamp is blown out.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
3	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rear	rear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	disappeared	disappeared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	disappears	disappear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  |  | O and Tsuyu |  |  | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument o=Destination |
| 2 | **lead away** | past | way | Tsuyu |  | the rear of the dwelling |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme toward rear=Destination |
| 3 | **disappear** | present | the light |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **blow out** | present · passive |  | the flame of a lamp |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **flame** |  | a lamp |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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