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title: But here is something incomparably more touching,—though in literal… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But here is something incomparably more touching,—though in literal translation probably more obscure,—than either of the preceding specimens;— Who acts: something. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 44

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But here is something incomparably more touching,—though in literal translation probably more obscure,—than either of the preceding specimens;—

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**Who acts:** something · **What happens:** be, precede

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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 (something), 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:pg8128:10:45
# text = But here is something incomparably more touching,—though in literal translation probably more obscure,—than either of the preceding specimens;—
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
5	incomparably	incomparably	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	touching	touching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	though	though	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	literal	literal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	obscure	obscure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | something  touching |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **precede** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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