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title: Such a work would properly begin with some brief account of the earl… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a work would properly begin with some brief account of the earliest knowledge and use of aromatics in Japan. Who acts: work. 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 115

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Such a work would properly begin with some brief account of the earliest knowledge and use of aromatics in Japan.

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**Who acts:** work · **What happens:** begin, account, use · **To what, where:** earliest knowledge, aromatics

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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 (work), 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:pg8128:1:116
# text = Such a work would properly begin with some brief account of the earliest knowledge and use of aromatics in Japan.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	aromatics	aromatic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | would | such work |  |  |  |  | with some brief account of the earliest knowledge and use of aromatics in Japan; properly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with account=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **account** |  |  | the earliest knowledge and use of aromatics in Japan |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **use** |  |  | aromatics in Japan |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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