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title: Although the power of making visible the forms of the dead has been… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Although the power of making visible the forms of the dead has been claimed for one sort of incense only, the burning of any kind of incense is supposed to summon viewless spirits in multitude. Who acts: power. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 1, with 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 70

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Although the power of making visible the forms of the dead has been claimed for one sort of incense only, the burning of any kind of incense is supposed to summon viewless spirits in multitude.

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**Who acts:** power · **What happens:** make, claim, suppose, summon, sort · **To what, where:** visible forms, power, burning, viewless spirits, multitude, incense

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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), 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:pg8128:3:72
# text = Although the power of making visible the forms of the dead has been claimed for one sort of incense only, the burning of any kind of incense is supposed to summon viewless spirits in multitude.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	claimed	claim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	summon	summon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	viewless	viewless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund | the power *not said here* | the visible forms of the dead |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset form=Product |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  | the power |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | the burning of any kind of incense |  |  |  | for one sort of incense | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **summon** | to-infinitive |  | viewless spirits |  | multitude |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Recipient |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | incense |  |  |  |  | nom sort «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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