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title: As a matter of fact, the chemical action of the tobacco-smoke would… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: As a matter of fact, the chemical action of the tobacco-smoke would define, upon a paper fitted into the mouth-piece of each cigarette, the photographic image of a dancing-girl. Who acts: chemical action, fact, tobacco smoke. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 69

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As a matter of fact, the chemical action of the tobacco-smoke would define, upon a paper fitted into the mouth-piece of each cigarette, the photographic image of a dancing-girl.

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**Who acts:** chemical action, fact, tobacco smoke · **What happens:** define, fit, matter, act, image · **To what, where:** paper, mouth piece, dancing girl

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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 (chemical action, fact, tobacco smoke), 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:pg8128:3:71
# text = As a matter of fact, the chemical action of the tobacco-smoke would define, upon a paper fitted into the mouth-piece of each cigarette, the photographic image of a dancing-girl.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	chemical	chemical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	define	define	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	photographic	photographic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **define** | would | the chemical action of the tobacco smoke | a paper |  |  |  | as a matter of fact | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent paper=Theme as matter=Attribute |
| 2 | **fit** | participle |  | a paper *not said here* |  | the mouth piece of each cigarette and the photographic image of a dancing girl |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into piece=Destination |
| 3 | **matter** |  | fact |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **act** |  | the tobacco smoke |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **image** |  |  | a dancing girl |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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