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title: But the use of incense in Japan is not confined to religious rites a… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But the use of incense in Japan is not confined to religious rites and ceremonies: indeed the costlier kinds of incense are manufactured chiefly for social entertainments. 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 162

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But the use of incense in Japan is not confined to religious rites and ceremonies: indeed the costlier kinds of incense are manufactured chiefly for social entertainments.

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**What happens:** not confine, manufacture, use · **To what, where:** use, religious rites, costlier kinds, 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: 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:pg8128:1:165
# text = But the use of incense in Japan is not confined to religious rites and ceremonies: indeed the costlier kinds of incense are manufactured chiefly for social entertainments.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	costlier	costly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	manufactured	manufacture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
25	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	entertainments	entertainment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **confine** | present · passive |  | the use of incense in Japan |  | religious rites and ceremonies |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to rite=Destination |
| 2 | **manufacture** | present · passive |  | the costlier kinds of incense |  |  |  | for social entertainments; chiefly, indeed *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for entertainment=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **use** |  |  | incense in Japan |  |  |  |  | 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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