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title: This was the wizard-incense referred to in such ancient love-songs a… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: This was the wizard-incense referred to in such ancient love-songs as the following:— Who acts: This. 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 47

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This was the wizard-incense referred to in such ancient love-songs as the following:—

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, refer, follow · **To what, where:** wizard incense, such ancient love songs

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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 (This), 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:pg8128:3:49
# text = This was the wizard-incense referred to in such ancient love-songs as the following:—
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | the wizard incense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **refer** | participle |  | the wizard incense *not said here* |  | such ancient love songs |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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