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title: There, within a palace of jewels, Nanda saw a multitude of heavenly… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 100

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There, within a palace of jewels, Nanda saw a multitude of heavenly maidens celebrating some festival with music and dance; and the beauty of the least among them incomparably exceeded that of the fairest woman of earth.

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**Who acts:** Nanda, heavenly maidens, beauty · **What happens:** see, celebrate, exceed · **To what, where:** multitude, festival

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nanda, heavenly maidens, beauty), 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:pg8128:4:100
# text = There, within a palace of jewels, Nanda saw a multitude of heavenly maidens celebrating some festival with music and dance; and the beauty of the least among them incomparably exceeded that of the fairest woman of earth.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	within	within	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Nanda	Nanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	celebrating	celebrate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	obl	_	_
30	among	among	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	incomparably	incomparably	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	exceeded	exceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	advcl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Nanda | a multitude of heavenly maidens |  | there |  | within a palace of jewels | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer multitude=Stimulus |
| 2 | **celebrate** | gerund | heavenly maidens *not said here* | some festival |  |  |  | with music and dance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Theme |
| 3 | **exceed** | past | the beauty |  |  |  |  | the fairest woman of earth *advcl*; incomparably *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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