---
title: Even as burns the perfume lending thy robe its fragance, Smoulders m… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Even as burns the perfume lending thy robe its fragance, Smoulders my life away, consumed by the pain of longing! Who acts: perfume. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/128/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/) / 128

# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 128

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Even as burns the perfume lending thy robe its fragance, Smoulders my life away, consumed by the pain of longing!

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** perfume · **What happens:** burn, lend, consume, pain · **To what, where:** perfume, robe, longing

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (perfume), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:1:129
# text = Even as burns the perfume lending thy robe its fragance, Smoulders my life away, consumed by the pain of longing!
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	lending	lend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fragance	fragance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Smoulders	smoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present |  | the perfume |  |  |  | Smoulders  my life *obl*; away *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme |
| 2 | **lend** | gerund | the perfume *not said here* | thy robe |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme |
| 3 | **consume** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the pain of longing | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pain** |  |  | longing |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/127/)
- next →: [sentence 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/129/)
- ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/)