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title: The dog was everybody’s and nobody’s—welcome everywhere but owned no… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The dog was everybody’s and nobody’s—welcome everywhere but owned nowhere. Who acts: dog. 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 131

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The dog was everybody’s and nobody’s—welcome everywhere but owned nowhere.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** be, welcome, own

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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 (dog), 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:pg8128:8:132
# text = The dog was everybody’s and nobody’s—welcome everywhere but owned nowhere.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the dog |  |  |  |  | 's everybody | tree rules |
| 2 | **welcome** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **own** | past |  |  |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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