---
title: And on the first evening of the Bon, after sun-down, he kindled a sm… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And on the first evening of the Bon, after sun-down, he kindled a small lamp before the tablet of O-Tsuyu, and lighted the lanterns. Who acts: sun. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/5/66/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Names of Incense Used., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/5/) / 66

# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 66

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And on the first evening of the Bon, after sun-down, he kindled a small lamp before the tablet of O-Tsuyu, and lighted the lanterns.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** kindle, light · **To what, where:** small lamp, lanterns

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:5:67
# text = And on the first evening of the Bon, after sun-down, he kindled a small lamp before the tablet of O-Tsuyu, and lighted the lanterns.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Bon	Bon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Tsuyu	Tsuyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kindle** | past | sun | a small lamp |  |  | before the tablet of O and Tsuyu; evening | of the Bon | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition lamp=Patient |
| 2 | **light** | participle | sun *not said here* | the lanterns |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Product |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/5/65/)
- next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/5/67/)
- ↑ back to [Names of Incense Used., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/5/)