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title: The Chinese text contains transliterations of some mysterious Sanscr… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chinese text contains transliterations of some mysterious Sanscrit words,—apparently talismanic words,—like those to be seen in Kern’s translation of the Saddharma-Pundarîka, ch. xxvi. Who acts: Chinese text, Saddharma Pundarîka. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incen
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 97

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The Chinese text contains transliterations of some mysterious Sanscrit words,—apparently talismanic words,—like those to be seen in Kern’s translation of the Saddharma-Pundarîka, ch. xxvi.

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**Who acts:** Chinese text, Saddharma Pundarîka · **What happens:** contain, see, transliterate, translate · **To what, where:** transliterations, translation, mysterious Sanscrit words

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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 (Chinese text, Saddharma Pundarîka), 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:pg8128:6:98
# text = The Chinese text contains transliterations of some mysterious Sanscrit words,—apparently talismanic words,—like those to be seen in Kern’s translation of the Saddharma-Pundarîka, ch. xxvi.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	transliterations	transliteration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
8	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Sanscrit	Sanscrit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	talismanic	talismanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Kern	Kern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	Saddharma	Saddharma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Pundarîka	Pundarîka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	ch	ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
35	xxvi	xxvi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | the Chinese text | transliterations of some mysterious Sanscrit words |  |  |  | talismanic words like those *obl* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot transliteration=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | the Chinese text *not said here* |  |  | Kern's translation of the Saddharma Pundarîka |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **transliterate** |  |  | some mysterious Sanscrit words |  |  |  |  | nom transliteration «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **translate** |  | the Saddharma Pundarîka |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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