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title: “I have heard of the magical incense that summons the souls of the a… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have heard of the magical incense that summons the souls of the absent: Would I had some to burn, in the nights when I wait alone!” Who acts: power, magical incense. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 48

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“I have heard of the magical incense that summons the souls of the absent: Would I had some to burn, in the nights when I wait alone!”

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**Who acts:** power, magical incense · **What happens:** hear, summon, have, burn, wait · **To what, where:** souls, some

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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 (power, magical incense), 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:pg8128:3:50
# text = “I have heard of the magical incense that summons the souls of the absent: Would I had some to burn, in the nights when I wait alone!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	summons	summon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
30	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the power *= power* |  |  |  |  | of the magical incense | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of incense=Stimulus |
| 2 | **summon** *in a quote* | present | the magical incense | the souls |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | would | the power *= power* | some |  |  | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 4 | **burn** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the power *= power* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** *in a quote* | present | the power *= power* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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