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description: We found the temple uninteresting, and the cemetery an abomination of desolation. Who acts: We, cemetery. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 118

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We found the temple uninteresting, and the cemetery an abomination of desolation.

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**Who acts:** We, cemetery · **What happens:** find, abomination · **To what, where:** temple

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, cemetery), 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:pg8128:7:119
# text = We found the temple uninteresting, and the cemetery an abomination of desolation.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	uninteresting	uninteresting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	abomination	abomination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	desolation	desolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | We | the temple |  |  |  | uninteresting *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Topic |
| 2 | **abomination** |  | the cemetery |  |  |  |  | of desolation | tree rules |

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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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