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title: Here I, too, have been constantly reciting the _Nembutsu_ before a t… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Here I, too, have been constantly reciting the _Nembutsu_ before a tablet with her name upon it! Who acts: Kuni. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 114

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Here I, too, have been constantly reciting the \_Nembutsu\_ before a tablet with her name upon it!

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**Who acts:** Kuni · **What happens:** recite, name · **To what, where:** \_ Nembutsu

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kuni), 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:pg8128:5:115
# text = Here I, too, have been constantly reciting the _Nembutsu_ before a tablet with her name upon it!
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
8	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	reciting	recite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Nembutsu	Nembutsu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recite** | present · perfect · progressive |  | the \_ Nembutsu |  | here | before a tablet | with Kuni's name upon tablet; constantly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nembutsu=Theme |
| 2 | **name** |  | Kuni |  |  |  |  | upon tablet | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent upon=obl |

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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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