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description: And very rarely a little of this priceless material is contributed to an incense-party,—much as in Europe, on very extraordinary occasions, some banquet is glorified by the production of a wine several hundred years old. Who acts: production. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 29

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And very rarely a little of this priceless material is contributed to an incense-party,—much as in Europe, on very extraordinary occasions, some banquet is glorified by the production of a wine several hundred years old.

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**Who acts:** production · **What happens:** contribute, glorify, produce · **To what, where:** little, incense party, extraordinary occasions, banquet, wine

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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 (production), 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:pg8128:3:31
# text = And very rarely a little of this priceless material is contributed to an incense-party,—much as in Europe, on very extraordinary occasions, some banquet is glorified by the production of a wine several hundred years old.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	priceless	priceless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	contributed	contribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	glorified	glorify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	production	production	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contribute** | present · passive |  | a little of this priceless material | a incense party | extraordinary occasions |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to party=Recipient |
| 2 | **glorify** | present · passive | the production of a wine | some banquet |  |  |  | old *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **produce** |  |  | a wine |  |  |  |  | nom production «act transitive»: of=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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