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title: The Mountain of Skulls The Magical Incense The Peony Lantern The Lig… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mountain of Skulls The Magical Incense The Peony Lantern The Lights of the Dead S’rîpâda-tracing at Dentsu-In, Koishikawa, Tōkyō Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan Square and Triangle Jizō Emma Dai-ō Who acts: Lantern Lights. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 6

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The Mountain of Skulls The Magical Incense The Peony Lantern The Lights of the Dead S’rîpâda-tracing at Dentsu-In, Koishikawa, Tōkyō Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan Square and Triangle Jizō Emma Dai-ō

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**Who acts:** Lantern Lights · **What happens:** trace, light · **To what, where:** Dentsu, Lantern Lights, Dead

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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 (Lantern Lights), 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:pg8128:1:6
# text = The Mountain of Skulls The Magical Incense The Peony Lantern The Lights of the Dead S’rîpâda-tracing at Dentsu-In, Koishikawa, Tōkyō Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan Square and Triangle Jizō Emma Dai-ō
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Skulls	Skulls	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Incense	Incense	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Peony	Peony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Lantern	Lantern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Dead	Dead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	S’rîpâda	S'rîpâda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tracing	trace	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Dentsu	Dentsu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	In	in	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Koishikawa	Koishikawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Tōkyō	Tōkyō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	Shō	Shō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Ekō	Ekō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Hō	Hō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Kwan	Kwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
34	Square	Square	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Triangle	Triangle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
37	Jizō	Jizō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	flat	_	_
38	Emma	Emma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	list	_	_
39	Dai	Dai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	ō	ō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | gerund | the Lantern Lights  the Mountain of Skulls of the Dead  Koishikawa  Emma and Tōkyō and Ekō and Hō and Kwan and Triangle *not said here* |  |  | Dentsu |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **light** |  |  | the Dead |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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