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title: It would be impossible, in a mere footnote, even to suggest the vari… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: It would be impossible, in a mere footnote, even to suggest the variety of Japanese religious objects to which the name is given. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 85

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It would be impossible, in a mere footnote, even to suggest the variety of Japanese religious objects to which the name is given.

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**What happens:** be, suggest, give · **To what, where:** variety, name, Japanese religious objects

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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:pg8128:6:86
# text = It would be impossible, in a mere footnote, even to suggest the variety of Japanese religious objects to which the name is given.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | a mere footnote *conj*; impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | to-infinitive |  | the variety of Japanese religious objects |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent variety=Topic |
| 3 | **give** | present · passive |  | the name | Japanese religious objects |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to which=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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