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title: But this subject could interest few readers; and I shall only mentio… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But this subject could interest few readers; and I shall only mention some of the rules regarding preparations and precautions. Who acts: I. 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 31

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But this subject could interest few readers; and I shall only mention some of the rules regarding preparations and precautions.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** mention, regard · **To what, where:** some, subject

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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 (I), 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:pg8128:3:33
# text = But this subject could interest few readers; and I shall only mention some of the rules regarding preparations and precautions.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	case	_	_
19	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	precautions	precaution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | shall | I | some of the rules regard preparations and precautions |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent some=Topic |
| 2 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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