---
title: But it is only the true incense which can be said to bear an importa… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But it is only the true incense which can be said to bear an important relation to the religious service. Who acts: _. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/140/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/) / 140

# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 140

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But it is only the true incense which can be said to bear an important relation to the religious service.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** be, say, bear · **To what, where:** true incense, important relation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (\_), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:1:142
# text = But it is only the true incense which can be said to bear an important relation to the religious service.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | \_ | the true incense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | can · passive |  | the true incense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive |  | a important relation |  |  |  | to the religious service | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/139/)
- next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/141/)
- ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/)