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title: More and more amazed, the old _ninsomi_ ventured to observe:— — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: More and more amazed, the old _ninsomi_ ventured to observe:— 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 92

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More and more amazed, the old \_ninsomi\_ ventured to observe:—

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**What happens:** venture, observe

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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: 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:pg8128:7:92
# text = More and more amazed, the old _ninsomi_ ventured to observe:—
1	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ninsomi	ninsomi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ventured	venture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **observe** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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