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title: I should judge the average height of these pedestals to be about two… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I should judge the average height of these pedestals to be about two feet four inches, and their greatest diameter about three feet. Who acts: I, greatest diameter. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 18

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I should judge the average height of these pedestals to be about two feet four inches, and their greatest diameter about three feet.

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**Who acts:** I, greatest diameter · **What happens:** judge, be, foot · **To what, where:** average height, two feet

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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 (I, greatest diameter), 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:pg8128:8:19
# text = I should judge the average height of these pedestals to be about two feet four inches, and their greatest diameter about three feet.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	pedestals	pedestal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	diameter	diameter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | should | I | the average height of this pedestals |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent height=Value |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | two feet and four inches |  |  |  | four inches *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **foot** |  | feet's greatest diameter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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