--- title: That variety of _kō-kwai_ called _Jitchū-kō_ (“ten-burning-incense”)… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: That variety of _kō-kwai_ called _Jitchū-kō_ (“ten-burning-incense”) is generally conceded to be the most amusing; and I shall try to tell you how it is played. Who acts: I. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/176/) [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/) / 176 # In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 176 That variety of \_kō-kwai\_ called \_Jitchū-kō\_ (“ten-burning-incense”) is generally conceded to be the most amusing; and I shall try to tell you how it is played. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** call, concede, be, try, tell, play · **To what, where:** kwai \_, variety, you, \_ · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8128:1:179 # text = That variety of _kō-kwai_ called _Jitchū-kō_ (“ten-burning-incense”) is generally conceded to be the most amusing; and I shall try to tell you how it is played. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 variety variety NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 kō kō NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 kwai kwai NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 _ _ NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Jitchū Jitchū PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 kō kō PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 burning burning NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 incense incense NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ” " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 generally generally ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 conceded concede VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 31 advmod _ _ 31 amusing amusing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 parataxis _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 iobj _ _ 40 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | kwai \_ *not said here* | | | | Jitchū and kō *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **concede** | present · passive | | that variety of kwai \_ | | | | generally *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | amusing *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **try** | shall | I | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 6 | **play** | present · passive | | \_ | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/175/) - next →: [sentence 177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/177/) - ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/)