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title: When the rich Sudatta wished to invite the Buddha to a repast, he ma… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: When the rich Sudatta wished to invite the Buddha to a repast, he made use of incense. Who acts: rich Sudatta, Sudatta. 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 142

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When the rich Sudatta wished to invite the Buddha to a repast, he made use of incense.

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**Who acts:** rich Sudatta, Sudatta · **What happens:** wish, invite, make, use · **To what, where:** Buddha, use, incense

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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 (rich Sudatta, Sudatta), 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:pg8128:1:144
# text = When the rich Sudatta wished to invite the Buddha to a repast, he made use of incense.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Sudatta	Sudatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	invite	invite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	repast	repast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | the rich Sudatta |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **invite** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the rich Sudatta *not said here* |  | the Buddha |  |  | to a repast | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddha=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** | past | Sudatta | use of incense |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | incense |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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