---
title: There are several kinds of incense-games; but in all of them the con… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: There are several kinds of incense-games; but in all of them the contest depends upon the ability to remember and to name different kinds of incense by the perfume alone. Who acts: several kinds. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/175/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/) / 175

# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 175

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
There are several kinds of incense-games; but in all of them the contest depends upon the ability to remember and to name different kinds of incense by the perfume alone.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** several kinds · **What happens:** be, depend, remember, name · **To what, where:** all, different kinds

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (several kinds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:1:178
# text = There are several kinds of incense-games; but in all of them the contest depends upon the ability to remember and to name different kinds of incense by the perfume alone.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ability	ability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
26	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | several kinds of incense games |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **depend** | present | several kinds of incense games *not said here* |  |  | all of kinds  the contest |  | upon the ability | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remember** | to-infinitive | several kinds of incense games *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **name** | to-infinitive | several kinds of incense games *not said here* | different kinds of incense |  |  |  | by the perfume | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/174/)
- next →: [sentence 176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/176/)
- ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/)