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title: Allusions to its employment in various weird rites may be found in s… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Allusions to its employment in various weird rites may be found in some of the old dramas and romances. Who acts: fragrance. 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 45

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Allusions to its employment in various weird rites may be found in some of the old dramas and romances.

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**Who acts:** fragrance · **What happens:** find, employ · **To what, where:** Allusions, some, various weird rites

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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 (fragrance), 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:pg8128:3:47
# text = Allusions to its employment in various weird rites may be found in some of the old dramas and romances.
1	Allusions	allusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	dramas	drama	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	romances	romance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | may · passive |  | Allusions to fragrance's employment in various weird rites |  | some of the old dramas and romances |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **employ** |  | fragrance |  |  | various weird rites |  |  | nom employment «state transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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