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title: It is the Japanese pronunciation of the title of a very short sutra… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the Japanese pronunciation of the title of a very short sutra translated out of Sanscrit into Chinese by the Indian priest Amoghavajra, probably during the eighth century. Who acts: service. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 96

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It is the Japanese pronunciation of the title of a very short sutra translated out of Sanscrit into Chinese by the Indian priest Amoghavajra, probably during the eighth century.

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**Who acts:** service · **What happens:** be, translate, title · **To what, where:** Japanese pronunciation, short sutra, Chinese

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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: who acts (service), 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:pg8128:6:97
# text = It is the Japanese pronunciation of the title of a very short sutra translated out of Sanscrit into Chinese by the Indian priest Amoghavajra, probably during the eighth century.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sutra	sutra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Sanscrit	Sanscrit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl:agent	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	Amoghavajra	Amoghavajra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	during	during	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | service | the Japanese pronunciation |  |  |  | of the title of a short sutra | tree rules |
| 2 | **translate** | participle |  | a short sutra *not said here* |  |  |  | into Chinese *result*; by the Indian priest; Sanscrit *obl:agent* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into chinese=Result |
| 3 | **title** |  |  | a short sutra |  |  |  |  | nom title «communication transitive»: of=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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