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title: One of the never-failing attractions of the Tōkyō stage is the perfo… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the never-failing attractions of the Tōkyō stage is the performance, by the famous Kikugorō and his company, of the _Botan-Dōrō_, or “Peony-Lantern.” Who acts: One. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 2

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One of the never-failing attractions of the Tōkyō stage is the performance, by the famous Kikugorō and his company, of the \_Botan-Dōrō\_, or “Peony-Lantern.”

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** not fail, be, attract · **To what, where:** performance, Tōkyō stage

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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 (One), 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:pg8128:5:2
# text = One of the never-failing attractions of the Tōkyō stage is the performance, by the famous Kikugorō and his company, of the _Botan-Dōrō_, or “Peony-Lantern.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	failing	fail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	attractions	attraction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Tōkyō	Tōkyō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Kikugorō	Kikugorō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Botan	Botan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Dōrō	Dōrō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Peony	peony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fail** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | One of the failing attractions of the Tōkyō stage | the performance or the Peony Lantern  Botan and Dōrō |  |  |  | the famous Kikugorō and his company *appos*; the Peony Lantern  Botan and Dōrō *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **attract** |  |  | the Tōkyō stage |  |  |  |  | nom attraction «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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