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title: The question of food as wages had never seriously troubled her, beca… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The question of food as wages had never seriously troubled her, because most of the families of the street daily contributed to her support. Who acts: question, most, West. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 122

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The question of food as wages had never seriously troubled her, because most of the families of the street daily contributed to her support.

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**Who acts:** question, most, West · **What happens:** not trouble, contribute, question, support · **To what, where:** West, support, food

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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 (question, most, 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:pg8128:8:123
# text = The question of food as wages had never seriously troubled her, because most of the families of the street daily contributed to her support.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	contributed	contribute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **trouble** | past | the question of food as wages | West |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 2 | **contribute** | past | most of the families of the street |  | West's support |  |  | daily *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to support=Recipient |
| 3 | **question** |  |  | food |  |  |  | as wages | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient as=obl |
| 4 | **support** |  | West |  |  |  |  |  | nom support «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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