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description: Like the tea-ceremonies, the _Kō-kwai_ exact observance of a very complex and ancient etiquette. Who acts: Kō. 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 30

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Like the tea-ceremonies, the \_Kō-kwai\_ exact observance of a very complex and ancient etiquette.

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**Who acts:** Kō · **What happens:** observance

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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 (Kō), 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:pg8128:3:32
# text = Like the tea-ceremonies, the _Kō-kwai_ exact observance of a very complex and ancient etiquette.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Kō	Kō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	kwai	kwai	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
13	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	observance	observance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	complex	complex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observance** |  | Kō |  |  |  |  | of a complex etiquette | tree rules |

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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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