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title: They are sometimes stamped or burned upon wood, but more commonly wr… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: They are sometimes stamped or burned upon wood, but more commonly written or printed upon narrow strips of paper. 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 99

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They are sometimes stamped or burned upon wood, but more commonly written or printed upon narrow strips of paper.

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**What happens:** stamp, burn, write, print · **To what, where:** texts, wood

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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:pg8128:6:100
# text = They are sometimes stamped or burned upon wood, but more commonly written or printed upon narrow strips of paper.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	commonly	commonly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | present · passive |  | texts *= text* |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  | wood |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wood=Location |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | upon narrow strips of paper | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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