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title: The reader will have noticed that the four kinds of incense used wer… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The reader will have noticed that the four kinds of incense used were designated by very pretty names. Who acts: pretty names. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 11

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The reader will have noticed that the four kinds of incense used were designated by very pretty names.

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**Who acts:** pretty names · **What happens:** notice, use, designate · **To what, where:** reader, four kinds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., 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 (pretty names), 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:pg8128:3:11
# text = The reader will have noticed that the four kinds of incense used were designated by very pretty names.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | future · perfect · passive |  | the reader |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | the four kinds of incense *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **designate** | past · passive | pretty names | the four kinds of incense |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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