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title: The _ninsomi_ uses a kind of magnifying glass (or magnifying-mirror… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The _ninsomi_ uses a kind of magnifying glass (or magnifying-mirror sometimes), called _tengankyō_ or _ninsomégané_. Who acts: ninsomi, kind. 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 128

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The \_ninsomi\_ uses a kind of magnifying glass (or magnifying-mirror sometimes), called \_tengankyō\_ or \_ninsomégané\_.

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**Who acts:** ninsomi, kind · **What happens:** use, magnify, call · **To what, where:** kind, glass, mirror, tengankyō · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ninsomi, kind), 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:pg8128:5:129
# text = The _ninsomi_ uses a kind of magnifying glass (or magnifying-mirror sometimes), called _tengankyō_ or _ninsomégané_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ninsomi	ninsomi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
5	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tengankyō	tengankyō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	ninsomégané	ninsomégané	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | the ninsomi | a kind |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
| 2 | **magnify** | gerund | a kind *not said here* | glass |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glass=Patient |
| 3 | **magnify** | gerund | the ninsomi *not said here* | mirror |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | tengankyō or ninsomégané |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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