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title: Several ancient Japanese temples also include such foreign incense a… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Several ancient Japanese temples also include such foreign incense among their treasures. Who acts: Several ancient Japanese temples, temples. 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 28

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Several ancient Japanese temples also include such foreign incense among their treasures.

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**Who acts:** Several ancient Japanese temples, temples · **What happens:** include, treasure · **To what, where:** such foreign incense, treasures

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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 (Several ancient Japanese temples, temples), 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:pg8128:3:30
# text = Several ancient Japanese temples also include such foreign incense among their treasures.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | Several ancient Japanese temples | such foreign incense |  | temples's treasures |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent incense=Theme among treasure=Location |
| 2 | **treasure** |  | temples *= temple* |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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