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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 22

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A Japanese artist would be condemned for attempting elaboration of detail in a sketch intended to recreate the memory of some landscape seen through the blue haze of a spring morning, or under the great blond light of an autumn after-noon.

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**Who acts:** spring morning · **What happens:** condemn, attempt, intend, recreate, see, elaborate · **To what, where:** Japanese artist, elaboration, sketch, memory, landscape, blue haze

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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 (spring morning), 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:pg8128:10:22
# text = A Japanese artist would be condemned for attempting elaboration of detail in a sketch intended to recreate the memory of some landscape seen through the blue haze of a spring morning, or under the great blond light of an autumn after-noon.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	attempting	attempt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	elaboration	elaboration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sketch	sketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	recreate	recreate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	landscape	landscape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	haze	haze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	under	under	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	blond	blond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	after	after	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **condemn** | would · passive |  | a Japanese artist |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **attempt** | gerund |  | elaboration of detail |  | a sketch |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elaboration=Eventuality |
| 3 | **intend** | participle |  | a sketch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **recreate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the memory of some landscape or the great blond light of a autumn after noon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | participle |  | some landscape *not said here* |  | the blue haze of a spring morning |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **elaborate** |  |  | detail |  |  |  |  | nom elaboration «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **haze** |  | a spring morning |  |  |  |  |  | nom haze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **light** |  |  | a autumn after noon |  |  |  |  | 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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