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title: This _makkō_ is said to be identical with the sandalwood-powder so f… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: This _makkō_ is said to be identical with the sandalwood-powder so frequently mentioned in Buddhist texts. 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 139

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This \_makkō\_ is said to be identical with the sandalwood-powder so frequently mentioned in Buddhist texts.

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**What happens:** say, be, mention · **To what, where:** makkō \_, Buddhist texts · **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:pg8128:1:141
# text = This _makkō_ is said to be identical with the sandalwood-powder so frequently mentioned in Buddhist texts.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	makkō	makkō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	sandalwood	sandalwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | this makkō \_ |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the sandalwood powder; identical *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  | Buddhist texts |  | frequently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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