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title: It contains an allusion to the curious ceremony called _Kai-gen_, or… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: It contains an allusion to the curious ceremony called _Kai-gen_, or “Eye-Opening.” Who acts: part, curious ceremony. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 132

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It contains an allusion to the curious ceremony called \_Kai-gen\_, or “Eye-Opening.”

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**Who acts:** part, curious ceremony · **What happens:** contain, call · **To what, where:** allusion, Kai gen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part, curious ceremony), 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:pg8128:24:133
# text = It contains an allusion to the curious ceremony called _Kai-gen_, or “Eye-Opening.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	allusion	allusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Eye	Eye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Opening	Opening	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | part | a allusion |  |  |  | to the curious ceremony; Eye Opening *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle | the curious ceremony *not said here* | Kai gen |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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