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title: That of Zōjōji,—with figures of divinities cut in low relief on its… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: That of Zōjōji,—with figures of divinities cut in low relief on its sides,—is the most ornate and costly of the four. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 21

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That of Zōjōji,—with figures of divinities cut in low relief on its sides,—is the most ornate and costly of the four.

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**What happens:** cut, be, figure · **To what, where:** divinities, low relief

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. 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:pg8128:8:22
# text = That of Zōjōji,—with figures of divinities cut in low relief on its sides,—is the most ornate and costly of the four.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Zōjōji	Zōjōji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	divinities	divinity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	ornate	ornate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | participle |  | divinities *not said here* |  | low relief on relief's sides |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | ornate *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | of the four | tree rules |
| 5 | **figure** |  |  | divinities |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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