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title: Neither bore any personal name,—only the Buddhist _kaimyō_, or posth… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 56

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Neither bore any personal name,—only the Buddhist \_kaimyō\_, or posthumous appellation.

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**What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** personal name

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8128:6:56
# text = Neither bore any personal name,—only the Buddhist _kaimyō_, or posthumous appellation.
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	kaimyō	kaimyō	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	posthumous	posthumous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	appellation	appellation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past |  | any personal name |  |  |  | the Buddhist or posthumous appellation *obl*; neither *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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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