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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 2

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Recently while looking over a manuscript-collection of verses,—mostly short poems of an emotional or descriptive character,—it occurred to me that a selection from them might serve to illustrate certain Japanese qualities of sentiment, as well as some little-known Japanese theories of artistic expression,—and I ventured forthwith, upon this essay.

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**Who acts:** character, selection, I · **What happens:** look, occur, serve, illustrate, know, venture · **To what, where:** short poems, me, certain Japanese qualities

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (character, selection, I), 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:pg8128:10:2
# text = Recently while looking over a manuscript-collection of verses,—mostly short poems of an emotional or descriptive character,—it occurred to me that a selection from them might serve to illustrate certain Japanese qualities of sentiment, as well as some little-known Japanese theories of artistic expression,—and I ventured forthwith, upon this essay.
1	Recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	manuscript	manuscript	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	emotional	emotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	descriptive	descriptive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
43	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	51	cc	_	_
44	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	fixed	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
46	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	det	_	_
47	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	amod	_	_
50	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	theories	theory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	artistic	artistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	ventured	venture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
60	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
62	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	64	det	_	_
64	essay	essay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  | short poems of a emotional character |  |  |  | over a manuscript collection of verses; recently *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over collection=Theme |
| 2 | **occur** | past | character | short poems of a emotional character *not said here* | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | might | a selection from poems |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **illustrate** | to-infinitive | a selection from poems *not said here* | certain Japanese qualities of sentiment |  |  |  | some known Japanese theories of artistic expression *obl* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quality=Destination |
| 5 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **venture** | past | I |  |  |  |  | upon this essay; forthwith *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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