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description: Furthermore, the guest should prepare for the contest by taking a prolonged hot bath, and should eat only the lightest and least odorous kind of food before going to the rendezvous. Who acts: guest. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1, with its dependen
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 33

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Furthermore, the guest should prepare for the contest by taking a prolonged hot bath, and should eat only the lightest and least odorous kind of food before going to the rendezvous.

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**Who acts:** guest · **What happens:** prepare, take, prolong, eat, go · **To what, where:** prolonged hot bath, lightest, rendezvous

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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 (guest), 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:pg8128:3:35
# text = Furthermore, the guest should prepare for the contest by taking a prolonged hot bath, and should eat only the lightest and least odorous kind of food before going to the rendezvous.
1	Furthermore	furthermore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lightest	light	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	odorous	odorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rendezvous	rendezvous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | should | the guest |  |  |  |  | for the contest; furthermore *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for contest=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | the guest *not said here* | a prolonged hot bath |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Theme |
| 3 | **prolong** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | should | the guest *not said here* | the lightest and odorous kind of food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 5 | **go** | gerund | the guest *not said here* |  |  | the rendezvous |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rendezvous=Initial\_Location |

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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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