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title: By the use of a few chosen words the composer of a short poem endeav… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: By the use of a few chosen words the composer of a short poem endeavors to do exactly what the painter endeavors to do with a few strokes of the brush,—to evoke an image or a mood,—to revive a sensation or an emotion. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 20

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By the use of a few chosen words the composer of a short poem endeavors to do exactly what the painter endeavors to do with a few strokes of the brush,—to evoke an image or a mood,—to revive a sensation or an emotion.

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**What happens:** choose, do, evoke, revive, use, stroke · **To what, where:** short poem endeavors, painter endeavors, image, sensation, few chosen words, brush

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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: 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:pg8128:10:20
# text = By the use of a few chosen words the composer of a short poem endeavors to do exactly what the painter endeavors to do with a few strokes of the brush,—to evoke an image or a mood,—to revive a sensation or an emotion.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	composer	composer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	endeavors	endeavor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	endeavors	endeavor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	evoke	evoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	revive	revive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sensation	sensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	emotion	emotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | a short poem endeavors |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | the painter endeavors *not said here* |  |  |  | with a few strokes of the brush | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **evoke** | to-infinitive |  | a image or a mood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **revive** | to-infinitive |  | a sensation or a emotion |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sensation=Patient |
| 7 | **use** |  |  | a few chosen words |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **stroke** |  |  | the brush |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act 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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