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title: But it symbolizes other things also; and it has furnished many remar… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But it symbolizes other things also; and it has furnished many remarkable similes to Buddhist literature. Who acts: offering. 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 147

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But it symbolizes other things also; and it has furnished many remarkable similes to Buddhist literature.

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**Who acts:** offering · **What happens:** symbolize, furnish · **To what, where:** other things, offering

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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 (offering), 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:pg8128:1:149
# text = But it symbolizes other things also; and it has furnished many remarkable similes to Buddhist literature.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	symbolizes	symbolize	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	similes	simile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **symbolize** | present | offering | other things |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 2 | **furnish** | present · perfect · passive |  | offering |  |  |  | to Buddhist literature; many remarkable similes *obj* | tree rules |

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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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