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title: In thousands and thousands of dwellings, you might observe that the… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: In thousands and thousands of dwellings, you might observe that the sliding-screens, separating rooms or closing alcoves, have Chinese or Japanese decorative texts upon them;—and these texts are poems. Who acts: you, texts. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 106

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In thousands and thousands of dwellings, you might observe that the sliding-screens, separating rooms or closing alcoves, have Chinese or Japanese decorative texts upon them;—and these texts are poems.

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**Who acts:** you, texts · **What happens:** observe, separate, close, have, be · **To what, where:** thousands, rooms, alcoves, Chinese decorative texts, poems

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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 (you, texts), 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:pg8128:9:107
# text = In thousands and thousands of dwellings, you might observe that the sliding-screens, separating rooms or closing alcoves, have Chinese or Japanese decorative texts upon them;—and these texts are poems.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	sliding	sliding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	separating	separate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	closing	close	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
21	alcoves	alcove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
24	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	decorative	decorative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | might | you |  |  | thousands and thousands of dwellings |  | the sliding screens *advcl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **separate** | gerund | you *not said here* | rooms |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 3 | **close** | gerund | you *not said here* | alcoves |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcove=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | Chinese decorative texts |  |  |  | upon alcoves *= alcove* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | this texts | poems |  |  |  |  | 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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