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title: Great quantities of it are burned by pilgrims in the bronze censers… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Great quantities of it are burned by pilgrims in the bronze censers set before the entrances of famous temples; and in front of roadside images you may often see bundles of it. Who acts: pilgrims, bronze censers, you. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency t
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 134

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Great quantities of it are burned by pilgrims in the bronze censers set before the entrances of famous temples; and in front of roadside images you may often see bundles of it.

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**Who acts:** pilgrims, bronze censers, you · **What happens:** burn, set, see · **To what, where:** Great quantities, entrances, bundles, front

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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 (pilgrims, bronze censers, you), 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:pg8128:1:136
# text = Great quantities of it are burned by pilgrims in the bronze censers set before the entrances of famous temples; and in front of roadside images you may often see bundles of it.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	censers	censer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	entrances	entrance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	often	often	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
31	bundles	bundle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present · passive | pilgrims | Great quantities of kō |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | present | the bronze censers |  |  | the entrances of famous temples |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before entrance=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | may | you | bundles of censer |  | front of roadside images |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bundle=Stimulus |

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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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