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title: Some of these, and not the least interesting, occur in prayers, of w… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of these, and not the least interesting, occur in prayers, of which the following, from the book called _Hōji-san_[2] is a striking example:— Who acts: book. 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 148

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Some of these, and not the least interesting, occur in prayers, of which the following, from the book called \_Hōji-san\_\[2\] is a striking example:—

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**Who acts:** book · **What happens:** occur, follow, call, be · **To what, where:** prayers, book, striking example · **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: who acts (book), 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:pg8128:1:150
# text = Some of these, and not the least interesting, occur in prayers, of which the following, from the book called _Hōji-san_[2] is a striking example:—
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	occur	occur	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Hōji	Hōji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	san	san	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	striking	striking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | infinitive |  |  |  | prayers |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in prayer=Location |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the book *not said here* |  |  |  | 2 *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the book | a striking example |  |  |  | which *obl* | 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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