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title: The common incense everywhere burned by poor people before Buddhist… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The common incense everywhere burned by poor people before Buddhist icons is called _an-soku-kō_. 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 132

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The common incense everywhere burned by poor people before Buddhist icons is called \_an-soku-kō\_.

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**What happens:** burn, call · **To what, where:** common incense · **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: 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:pg8128:1:134
# text = The common incense everywhere burned by poor people before Buddhist icons is called _an-soku-kō_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	icons	icon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	soku	soku	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	kō	kō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | participle |  | the common incense *not said here* |  |  | before Buddhist icons | by poor people; everywhere *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by people=Location |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  | the common incense |  |  |  | a soku kō *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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