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title: Whether well or ill treated she had served all occupants faultlessly… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Whether well or ill treated she had served all occupants faultlessly as a watch. Who acts: West. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 121

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Whether well or ill treated she had served all occupants faultlessly as a watch.

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**Who acts:** West · **What happens:** treat, serve · **To what, where:** occupants

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (West), 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:pg8128:8:122
# text = Whether well or ill treated she had served all occupants faultlessly as a watch.
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	occupants	occupant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	faultlessly	faultlessly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | participle | West *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **serve** | past · perfect | West | all occupants |  |  |  | as a watch; faultlessly *property* | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent occupant=Duration as watch=Attribute |

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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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