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title: The poems, which had been collected for me by different persons at m… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The poems, which had been collected for me by different persons at many different times and places, were chiefly of the kind written on particular occasions, and cast into forms more serried, if not also actually briefer, than anything in Western prosody. Who acts: different persons, poems. A senten
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 3

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The poems, which had been collected for me by different persons at many different times and places, were chiefly of the kind written on particular occasions, and cast into forms more serried, if not also actually briefer, than anything in Western prosody.

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**Who acts:** different persons, poems · **What happens:** collect, write, be, cast, serry · **To what, where:** poems, kind written particular occasions, forms

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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 (different persons, poems), 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:pg8128:10:3
# text = The poems, which had been collected for me by different persons at many different times and places, were chiefly of the kind written on particular occasions, and cast into forms more serried, if not also actually briefer, than anything in Western prosody.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
21	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
24	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	serried	serry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
39	also	also	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	briefer	brief	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	than	than	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	41	obl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	prosody	prosody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past · perfect · passive | different persons at many different times and places | the poems |  |  |  | for me | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the poems |  |  |  |  | of the kind written particular occasions; chiefly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **cast** | participle |  | the kind written particular occasions *not said here* |  | forms |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into form=Product |
| 5 | **serry** | participle |  | forms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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