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title: 8 1/3 “ (1 1/40 oz.) Byakudan (sandal-wood) 4 “ (1/2 oz.) Kanshō (sp… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: 8 1/3 “ (1 1/40 oz.) Byakudan (sandal-wood) 4 “ (1/2 oz.) Kanshō (spikenard) 2 _bu_ (1/4 oz.) Kwakkō (Bishop’s-wort?) 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 21

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8 1/3 “ (1 1/40 oz.) Byakudan (sandal-wood) 4 “ (1/2 oz.) Kanshō (spikenard) 2 \_bu\_ (1/4 oz.) Kwakkō (Bishop’s-wort?)

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**To what, where:** 8 1/3

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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: 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:pg8128:3:23
# text = 8 1/3 “ (1 1/40 oz.) Byakudan (sandal-wood) 4 “ (1/2 oz.) Kanshō (spikenard) 2 _bu_ (1/4 oz.) Kwakkō (Bishop’s-wort?)
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	1/3	1/3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	1/40	1/40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
7	oz.	oz.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
9	Byakudan	Byakudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	sandal	sandal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	1/2	1/2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	oz.	oz.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	Kanshō	Kanshō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	spikenard	spikenard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	bu	Bu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	1/4	1/4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	oz.	oz.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	Kwakkō	Kwakkō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Bishop’s	Bishop's	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	wort	wort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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