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title: “Shōko Setsu was not less delighted than surprised; for the book was… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Shōko Setsu was not less delighted than surprised; for the book was a manuscript of the rarest and most precious kind,—containing all the secrets of the science of divination. Who acts: Shōko. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 2, with its dependency tr
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 2, sentence 9

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“Shōko Setsu was not less delighted than surprised; for the book was a manuscript of the rarest and most precious kind,—containing all the secrets of the science of divination.

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**Who acts:** Shōko · **What happens:** be, contain · **To what, where:** manuscript, secrets

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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 (Shōko), 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:pg8128:4:9
# text = “Shōko Setsu was not less delighted than surprised; for the book was a manuscript of the rarest and most precious kind,—containing all the secrets of the science of divination.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Shōko	Shōko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Setsu	Setsu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	manuscript	manuscript	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	rarest	rare	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	divination	divination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Shōko |  |  |  |  | than surprised; delighted, less *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Shōko *not said here* | a manuscript |  |  |  | for the book; of the rarest precious kind | tree rules |
| 3 | **contain** *in a quote* | gerund | Shōko *not said here* | all secrets of the science of divination |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot secret=Theme |

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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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