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title: Then a very large part of the work would have to be devoted to the r… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a very large part of the work would have to be devoted to the religious uses and legends of incense,—a huge subject in itself. Who acts: large part, religious. 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 124

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Then a very large part of the work would have to be devoted to the religious uses and legends of incense,—a huge subject in itself.

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**Who acts:** large part, religious · **What happens:** have, devote, use · **To what, where:** legends

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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 (large part, religious), 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:pg8128:1:125
# text = Then a very large part of the work would have to be devoted to the religious uses and legends of incense,—a huge subject in itself.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
17	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | a large part of the work |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **devote** | to-infinitive · passive | a large part of the work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING» |
| 3 | **use** | present | the religious | legends of incense and a huge subject in INCENSE |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=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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