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title: And thereafter, with spotless conscience, she would sit down and utt… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And thereafter, with spotless conscience, she would sit down and utter to the moon the funeral cry of her ancestors. Who acts: incongruity, ancestors. 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 22

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And thereafter, with spotless conscience, she would sit down and utter to the moon the funeral cry of her ancestors.

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**Who acts:** incongruity, ancestors · **What happens:** sit down, utter, cry · **To what, where:** funeral cry, moon

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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 (incongruity, ancestors), 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:pg8128:9:22
# text = And thereafter, with spotless conscience, she would sit down and utter to the moon the funeral cry of her ancestors.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	spotless	spotless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | would | incongruity |  |  |  |  | with spotless conscience; thereafter *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | infinitive | incongruity *not said here* | the funeral cry of incongruity's ancestors | the moon |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cry=Topic to moon=Recipient |
| 3 | **cry** |  | incongruity's ancestors |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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