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title: _Kō_ is burned; _dzukō_ is rubbed upon the hands of the priest as an… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _Kō_ is burned; _dzukō_ is rubbed upon the hands of the priest as an ointment of purification; and _makkō_ is sprinkled about the sanctuary. 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 138

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\_Kō\_ is burned; \_dzukō\_ is rubbed upon the hands of the priest as an ointment of purification; and \_makkō\_ is sprinkled about the sanctuary.

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**What happens:** burn, rub, sprinkle · **To what, where:** Kō, dzukō \_, hands, makkō \_

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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:pg8128:1:140
# text = _Kō_ is burned; _dzukō_ is rubbed upon the hands of the priest as an ointment of purification; and _makkō_ is sprinkled about the sanctuary.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kō	Kō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	dzukō	dzukō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	purification	purification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	makkō	makkō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sanctuary	sanctuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 |  | Kō |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **rub** | present · passive |  | dzukō \_ |  | the hands of the priest |  | as a ointment of purification | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon hand=Destination |
| 3 | **sprinkle** | present · passive |  | makkō \_ |  |  |  | about the sanctuary | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme about sanctuary=Destination |

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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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