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title: Sometimes an incense is used worth even more than $30.00 per envelop… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes an incense is used worth even more than $30.00 per envelope: this contains _ranjatai_, an aromatic of which the perfume is compared to that of “musk mingled with orchid-flowers.” Who acts: this, musk. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1, with 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 26

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Sometimes an incense is used worth even more than $30.00 per envelope: this contains \_ranjatai\_, an aromatic of which the perfume is compared to that of “musk mingled with orchid-flowers.”

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**Who acts:** this, musk · **What happens:** use, contain, compare, mingle · **To what, where:** incense, ranjatai, perfume

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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 (this, musk), 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:pg8128:3:28
# text = Sometimes an incense is used worth even more than $30.00 per envelope: this contains _ranjatai_, an aromatic of which the perfume is compared to that of “musk mingled with orchid-flowers.”
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	$	$	SYM	$	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	30.00	30.00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	per	per	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	envelope	envelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
16	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ranjatai	ranjatai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	aromatic	aromatic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	musk	musk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	orchid	orchid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | a incense |  |  |  | sometimes, worth *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **contain** | present | this | ranjatai |  |  |  | a aromatic *obl* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ranjatai=Theme |
| 3 | **compare** | present · passive |  | the perfume |  |  |  | of a aromatic | tree rules |
| 4 | **mingle** *in a quote* | past | musk |  |  |  |  | with orchid flowers | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with flower=Co-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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