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title: It was totally unlike the modern domestic band-lantern, painted with… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: It was totally unlike the modern domestic band-lantern, painted with the owner’s crest; but it was not altogether unlike some forms of lanterns still manufactured for the Festival of the Dead, and called _Bon-dōrō_. Who acts: shape, forms. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 81

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It was totally unlike the modern domestic band-lantern, painted with the owner’s crest; but it was not altogether unlike some forms of lanterns still manufactured for the Festival of the Dead, and called \_Bon-dōrō\_.

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**Who acts:** shape, forms · **What happens:** be, paint, not be, manufacture, call · **To what, where:** modern domestic band lantern, Bon · **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 (shape, forms), 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:pg8128:5:82
# text = It was totally unlike the modern domestic band-lantern, painted with the owner’s crest; but it was not altogether unlike some forms of lanterns still manufactured for the Festival of the Dead, and called _Bon-dōrō_.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
3	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
4	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
23	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	manufactured	manufacture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Dead	Dead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Bon	Bon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	dōrō	dōrō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | shape |  |  |  |  | unlike the modern domestic band lantern; totally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  | the modern domestic band lantern *not said here* |  |  |  | with the owner's crest | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with crest=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | shape |  |  |  |  | unlike some forms; of lanterns; altogether *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **manufacture** | past | some forms |  |  |  | still | for the Festival of the Dead | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for festival=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **call** | past | some forms *not said here* |  | Bon and dōrō |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bon=Recipient |

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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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