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title: Finally I may observe that, while judging the incense, a player is e… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally I may observe that, while judging the incense, a player is expected to take not less than three inhalations, or more than five. Who acts: I, player. 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 35

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Finally I may observe that, while judging the incense, a player is expected to take not less than three inhalations, or more than five.

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**Who acts:** I, player · **What happens:** observe, judge, expect, take · **To what, where:** that, incense, player, three inhalations

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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, player), 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:pg8128:3:37
# text = Finally I may observe that, while judging the incense, a player is expected to take not less than three inhalations, or more than five.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	judging	judge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	21	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	inhalations	inhalation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	27	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | may | I | that |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 2 | **judge** | gerund | I *not said here* | the incense |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent incense=Value |
| 3 | **expect** | present · passive |  | a player |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a player *not said here* | three inhalations |  |  |  | five *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument inhalation=Theme five=Destination |

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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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