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title: Thus four packages are prepared of the incense classed as No. 1, fou… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus four packages are prepared of the incense classed as No. 1, four of incense No. 2, and four of incense No. 3,—or twelve in all. 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 180

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Thus four packages are prepared of the incense classed as No. 1, four of incense No. 2, and four of incense No. 3,—or twelve in all.

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**What happens:** prepare, class · **To what, where:** four packages, 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:pg8128:1:183
# text = Thus four packages are prepared of the incense classed as No. 1, four of incense No. 2, and four of incense No. 3,—or twelve in all.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	packages	package	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	classed	class	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | present · passive |  | four packages |  |  |  | of the incense; four of incense No. *parataxis*; thus *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **class** | participle |  | the incense *not said here* |  |  |  | as No. *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent as no.=Goal |

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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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