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title: But in rich temples, and during great religious ceremonies, much mor… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But in rich temples, and during great religious ceremonies, much more expensive incense is used. 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 136

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But in rich temples, and during great religious ceremonies, much more expensive incense is used.

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**What happens:** use · **To what, where:** expensive incense, rich temples

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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:pg8128:1:138
# text = But in rich temples, and during great religious ceremonies, much more expensive incense is used.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
7	during	during	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | expensive incense |  |  | during great religious ceremonies |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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