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title: Children ride on her back, and tease her at will; but although she h… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Children ride on her back, and tease her at will; but although she has been known to make strange men feel uncomfortable, she never growls at a child. Who acts: Children, strange men, West. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, with its dependency tree a
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 124

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Children ride on her back, and tease her at will; but although she has been known to make strange men feel uncomfortable, she never growls at a child.

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**Who acts:** Children, strange men, West · **What happens:** ride, tease, know, make, feel, not growl · **To what, where:** back, West

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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 (Children, strange men, 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:pg8128:8:125
# text = Children ride on her back, and tease her at will; but although she has been known to make strange men feel uncomfortable, she never growls at a child.
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tease	tease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
14	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	growls	growl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present | Children |  |  | West's back |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tease** | infinitive | Children *not said here* | West |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | present · perfect · passive |  | West |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | present | strange men |  |  |  |  | uncomfortable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **growl** | present | West |  |  |  |  | at a child | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at child=Stimulus |

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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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