--- title: As the censer passes from hand to hand, each player, after inhaling… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: As the censer passes from hand to hand, each player, after inhaling the fume, puts into the tablet-box one tablet bearing that mark or number which he supposes to be the mark or number of the incense he has smelled. Who acts: censer, mark, set. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Ope --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/197/) [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/) / 197 # In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 197 As the censer passes from hand to hand, each player, after inhaling the fume, puts into the tablet-box one tablet bearing that mark or number which he supposes to be the mark or number of the incense he has smelled. **Who acts:** censer, mark, set · **What happens:** pass, inhale, put, suppose, be, smell · **To what, where:** hand, fume, one tablet bearing, tablet box, mark, incense 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 (censer, mark, set), 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:pg8128:1:200 # text = As the censer passes from hand to hand, each player, after inhaling the fume, puts into the tablet-box one tablet bearing that mark or number which he supposes to be the mark or number of the incense he has smelled. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 censer censer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 player player NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 after after SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 inhaling inhale VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fume fume NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 bearing bearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 det _ _ 28 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 supposes suppose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 incense incense NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 smelled smell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | present | the censer | | | hand | | to hand | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial\_Location to hand=Destination | | 2 | **inhale** | gerund | the censer *not said here* | the fume | | | | | vn exhale-40.1.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fume=Theme | | 3 | **put** | present | | one tablet bearing and that mark or number | | the tablet box | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bearing=Goal | | 4 | **suppose** | present | that mark or number | | | | | set *nsubj* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | the mark or number of the incense | | | | number of the incense *conj* | tree rules | | 6 | **smell** | present · perfect | set | the incense *not said here* | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer incense=Stimulus | 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 196](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/196/) - next →: [sentence 198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/198/) - ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/1/)