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title: She is gentle and silent,—silent at least by day; and in spite of he… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: She is gentle and silent,—silent at least by day; and in spite of her gaunt ugliness, her pointed ears, and her somewhat unpleasant eyes, everybody is fond of her. Who acts: West, everybody. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, with its dependency tree 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 123

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She is gentle and silent,—silent at least by day; and in spite of her gaunt ugliness, her pointed ears, and her somewhat unpleasant eyes, everybody is fond of her.

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**Who acts:** West, everybody · **What happens:** be, spite · **To what, where:** least, spite, gaunt ugliness

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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, everybody), 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:pg8128:8:124
# text = She is gentle and silent,—silent at least by day; and in spite of her gaunt ugliness, her pointed ears, and her somewhat unpleasant eyes, everybody is fond of her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
32	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | West |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | West *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | West *not said here* |  |  | least by day |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | everybody |  |  | spite of West's gaunt ugliness and West's pointed ears and West's unpleasant eyes |  | of West; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spite** |  |  | West's gaunt ugliness and West's pointed ears and West's unpleasant eyes |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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