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title: Every day thereafter he presented offerings, and repeated the _Nembu… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day thereafter he presented offerings, and repeated the _Nembutsu;_ and the memory of O-Tsuyu was never absent from his thought. Who acts: Shinzaburō, O. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 63

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Every day thereafter he presented offerings, and repeated the \_Nembutsu;\_ and the memory of O-Tsuyu was never absent from his thought.

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburō, O · **What happens:** present, repeat, not be, think · **To what, where:** offerings, Nembutsu, memory, thought

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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 (Shinzaburō, O), 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:pg8128:5:64
# text = Every day thereafter he presented offerings, and repeated the _Nembutsu;_ and the memory of O-Tsuyu was never absent from his thought.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Nembutsu	Nembutsu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	O	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | past | Shinzaburō | offerings |  |  | day | the memory *obl*; thereafter *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 2 | **repeat** | past | Shinzaburō *not said here* | the Nembutsu |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nembutsu=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | O | the memory *not said here* |  | Shinzaburō's thought |  | Tsuyu *nsubj*; absent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** |  | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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