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title: The tea used in these ceremonies is a powdered tea of remarkable fra… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The tea used in these ceremonies is a powdered tea of remarkable fragrance,—the best qualities of which fetch very high prices. Who acts: tea, best qualities. 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 173

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The tea used in these ceremonies is a powdered tea of remarkable fragrance,—the best qualities of which fetch very high prices.

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**Who acts:** tea, best qualities · **What happens:** use, powder, be, fetch · **To what, where:** tea, ceremonies, powdered tea, high prices

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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 (tea, best qualities), 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:pg8128:1:176
# text = The tea used in these ceremonies is a powdered tea of remarkable fragrance,—the best qualities of which fetch very high prices.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	powdered	powder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | the tea *not said here* |  | this ceremonies |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **powder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the tea | a powdered tea |  |  |  | of remarkable fragrance; the best qualities *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fetch** | present | the best qualities | high prices |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=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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