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title: The toes are slender, round, long, straight, graceful, _and somewhat… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The toes are slender, round, long, straight, graceful, _and somewhat luminous_.” Who acts: toes. 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 54

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The toes are slender, round, long, straight, graceful, \_and somewhat luminous\_.”

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**Who acts:** toes · **What happens:** be

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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 (toes), 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:pg8128:8:55
# text = The toes are slender, round, long, straight, graceful, _and somewhat luminous_.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	luminous	luminous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the toes |  |  |  |  | slender *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the toes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the toes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the toes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the toes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | somewhat *property* | 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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