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title: But there were, and still are, incense-ceremonies much more elaborat… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But there were, and still are, incense-ceremonies much more elaborate and costly than the tea-ceremonies,—and also much more interesting. Who acts: incense ceremonies. 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 165

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But there were, and still are, incense-ceremonies much more elaborate and costly than the tea-ceremonies,—and also much more interesting.

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**Who acts:** incense ceremonies · **What happens:** be

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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 (incense ceremonies), 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:pg8128:1:168
# text = But there were, and still are, incense-ceremonies much more elaborate and costly than the tea-ceremonies,—and also much more interesting.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	elaborate	elaborate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | incense ceremonies |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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