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title: But the odor of which I speak is that of cheap incense only,—the inc… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But the odor of which I speak is that of cheap incense only,—the incense in general use. Who acts: I, odor. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 107

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But the odor of which I speak is that of cheap incense only,—the incense in general use.

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**Who acts:** I, odor · **What happens:** speak, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, odor), 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:pg8128:1:108
# text = But the odor of which I speak is that of cheap incense only,—the incense in general use.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	odor	odor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  | of the odor | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the odor |  |  |  |  | of cheap incense and the incense in general use; the incense in general use *conj* | 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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