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title: Then mention should be made of the ancient incenses still preserved… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then mention should be made of the ancient incenses still preserved in various Japanese temples, and of the famous fragments of _ranjatai_ (publicly exhibited at Nara in the tenth year of Meiji) which furnished supplies to the three great captains, Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Iyeyasu. Who acts: famous 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 118

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Then mention should be made of the ancient incenses still preserved in various Japanese temples, and of the famous fragments of \_ranjatai\_ (publicly exhibited at Nara in the tenth year of Meiji) which furnished supplies to the three great captains, Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Iyeyasu.

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**Who acts:** famous fragments · **What happens:** be, make, preserve, exhibit, furnish · **To what, where:** ancient incenses, various Japanese temples, famous fragments, Nara, supplies, three great captains

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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 (famous fragments), 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:pg8128:1:119
# text = Then mention should be made of the ancient incenses still preserved in various Japanese temples, and of the famous fragments of _ranjatai_ (publicly exhibited at Nara in the tenth year of Meiji) which furnished supplies to the three great captains, Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Iyeyasu.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	cop	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	incenses	incense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	ranjatai	ranjatai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	publicly	publicly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	exhibited	exhibit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Nara	Nara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Meiji	Meiji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
40	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
44	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	Nobunaga	Nobunaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	Hideyoshi	Hideyoshi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	Iyeyasu	Iyeyasu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | then *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the ancient incenses; of the famous fragments of ranjatai | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 3 | **preserve** | participle |  | the ancient incenses *not said here* |  | various Japanese temples | still |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **exhibit** | participle |  | the famous fragments of ranjatai *not said here* |  | Nara | year | publicly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **furnish** | past | the famous fragments of ranjatai | supplies | the three great captains |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent supplies=Theme to captain=Recipient |

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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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