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description: The foregoing comparison is unnecessarily strong; but the Buddhist teaching about heaven is in substance eminently logical. Who acts: foregoing comparison, Buddhist teaching. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 87

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The foregoing comparison is unnecessarily strong; but the Buddhist teaching about heaven is in substance eminently logical.

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**Who acts:** foregoing comparison, Buddhist teaching · **What happens:** forego, be · **To what, where:** substance

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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 (foregoing comparison, Buddhist teaching), 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:pg8128:4:87
# text = The foregoing comparison is unnecessarily strong; but the Buddhist teaching about heaven is in substance eminently logical.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	foregoing	forego	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	unnecessarily	unnecessarily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	eminently	eminently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	logical	logical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forego** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the foregoing comparison |  |  |  |  | strong, unnecessarily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the Buddhist teaching about heaven |  |  | substance |  |  | tree rules |

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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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