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title: She belongs to some ruder Northern breed, much more wolfish, and ret… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: She belongs to some ruder Northern breed, much more wolfish, and retaining wild traits of a very peculiar kind. Who acts: uneasiness. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 10

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She belongs to some ruder Northern breed, much more wolfish, and retaining wild traits of a very peculiar kind.

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**Who acts:** uneasiness · **What happens:** belong, retain · **To what, where:** wild traits

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uneasiness), 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:pg8128:9:10
# text = She belongs to some ruder Northern breed, much more wolfish, and retaining wild traits of a very peculiar kind.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ruder	rude	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	breed	breed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	wolfish	wolfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	retaining	retain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	traits	trait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | uneasiness |  |  |  |  | to ruder Northern breed | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **retain** | gerund | uneasiness *not said here* | wild traits of a peculiar kind |  |  |  |  | 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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