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title: Between were tombs leaning at all angles out of the perpendicular, t… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Between were tombs leaning at all angles out of the perpendicular, tablets made illegible by scurf, empty pedestals, shattered water-tanks, and statues of Buddhas without heads or hands. Who acts: tombs. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5, with its dep
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 120

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Between were tombs leaning at all angles out of the perpendicular, tablets made illegible by scurf, empty pedestals, shattered water-tanks, and statues of Buddhas without heads or hands.

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**Who acts:** tombs · **What happens:** be, lean, make, shatter · **To what, where:** angles, tablets

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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 (tombs), 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:pg8128:7:121
# text = Between were tombs leaning at all angles out of the perpendicular, tablets made illegible by scurf, empty pedestals, shattered water-tanks, and statues of Buddhas without heads or hands.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	angles	angle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	perpendicular	perpendicular	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	illegible	illegible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	scurf	scurf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pedestals	pedestal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	shattered	shatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Buddhas	buddha	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	without	without	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | between tombs and tablets and empty pedestals and shattered water tanks and statues of Buddhas without heads or hands; tablets *conj*; empty pedestals *conj*; shattered water tanks *conj*; statues of Buddhas without heads or hands *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lean** | gerund | tombs and tablets and empty pedestals and shattered water tanks and statues of Buddhas without heads or hands *not said here* |  |  | all angles |  | out the perpendicular | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at angle=Location |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | tablets *not said here* |  |  |  | by scurf; illegible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **shatter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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