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title: Like the pictures upon screens and fans and cups, they give pleasure… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Like the pictures upon screens and fans and cups, they give pleasure by recalling impressions of nature, by reviving happy incidents of travel or pilgrimage, by evoking the memory of beautiful days. Who acts: cups. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Shintō Revery, with its dependenc
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# In Ghostly Japan, Shintō Revery, sentence 10

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Like the pictures upon screens and fans and cups, they give pleasure by recalling impressions of nature, by reviving happy incidents of travel or pilgrimage, by evoking the memory of beautiful days.

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**Who acts:** cups · **What happens:** give, recall, revive, evoke, impress · **To what, where:** pleasure, impressions, happy incidents, memory, nature

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Shintō Revery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cups), 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:pg8128:23:11
# text = Like the pictures upon screens and fans and cups, they give pleasure by recalling impressions of nature, by reviving happy incidents of travel or pilgrimage, by evoking the memory of beautiful days.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	recalling	recall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	impressions	impression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	reviving	revive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
22	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	evoking	evoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | cups *= cup* | pleasure |  |  |  | like the pictures upon screens and fans and cups | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme |
| 2 | **recall** | gerund | cups *= cup* *not said here* | impressions of nature |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impression=Theme |
| 3 | **revive** | gerund | cups *= cup* *not said here* | happy incidents of travel or pilgrimage |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent incident=Patient |
| 4 | **evoke** | gerund | cups *= cup* *not said here* | the memory of beautiful days |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **impress** |  |  | nature |  |  |  |  | nom impression «cognition 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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