--- title: I once knew a fortune-teller who really believed in the science that… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: I once knew a fortune-teller who really believed in the science that he professed. Who acts: I, fortune teller, burning. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/3/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Names of Incense Used., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/3/) / 75 # In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 1, sentence 75 I once knew a fortune-teller who really believed in the science that he professed. **Who acts:** I, fortune teller, burning · **What happens:** know, believe, profess · **To what, where:** fortune teller, science 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 (I, fortune teller, burning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8128:3:77 # text = I once knew a fortune-teller who really believed in the science that he professed. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 3 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 teller teller NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 really really ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 professed profess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | I | a fortune teller | | | | once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer teller=Stimulus | | 2 | **believe** | past | a fortune teller | | | the science | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **profess** | past | burning | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/3/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/3/76/) - ↑ back to [Names of Incense Used., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/3/)