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title: Once she was on the very point of being officially executed when the… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Once she was on the very point of being officially executed when the wife of the smith ran to the rescue, and pleaded successfully with the policeman superintending the massacres. Who acts: West, wife, point, policeman. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 127

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Once she was on the very point of being officially executed when the wife of the smith ran to the rescue, and pleaded successfully with the policeman superintending the massacres.

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**Who acts:** West, wife, point, policeman · **What happens:** be, execute, run, plead, superintend · **To what, where:** point, massacres

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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, wife, point, policeman), 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:pg8128:8:128
# text = Once she was on the very point of being officially executed when the wife of the smith ran to the rescue, and pleaded successfully with the policeman superintending the massacres.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:outer	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	pleaded	plead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	policeman	policeman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	superintending	superintend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	massacres	massacre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | West |  |  | the point |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **execute** | gerund · passive |  | the point *not said here* |  |  |  | officially *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **run** | past | the wife of the smith |  |  |  |  | to the rescue *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to rescue=Result |
| 4 | **plead** *speech: request* | past | the point |  |  |  |  | with the policeman; successfully *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **superintend** | gerund | the policeman *not said here* | the massacres |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent massacre=Theme |

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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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