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title: Yusai refers here to the old Chinese nature-philosophy,—better known… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Yusai refers here to the old Chinese nature-philosophy,—better known to Western readers by the name FENG-SHUI. Who acts: Yusai. 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 95

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Yusai refers here to the old Chinese nature-philosophy,—better known to Western readers by the name FENG-SHUI.

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**Who acts:** Yusai · **What happens:** refer, know

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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 (Yusai), 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:pg8128:7:95
# text = Yusai refers here to the old Chinese nature-philosophy,—better known to Western readers by the name FENG-SHUI.
1	Yusai	Yusai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
14	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	FENG	FENG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	SHUI	SHUI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | Yusai |  |  | here |  | to the old Chinese nature philosophy | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to philosophy=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **know** | participle | Yusai *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Western readers; by the name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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