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title: The first _Butsu-soku-séki_ made in Japan was that erected at Tōdaij… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The first _Butsu-soku-séki_ made in Japan was that erected at Tōdaiji, in Nara. 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 23

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The first \_Butsu-soku-séki\_ made in Japan was that erected at Tōdaiji, in Nara.

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**What happens:** make, erect · **To what, where:** Butsu, Japan, Tōdaiji

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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:pg8128:8:24
# text = The first _Butsu-soku-séki_ made in Japan was that erected at Tōdaiji, in Nara.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Butsu	Butsu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	soku	soku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	séki	séki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Tōdaiji	Tōdaiji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Nara	Nara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | Butsu *not said here* |  | Japan |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **erect** | past · passive |  | Butsu |  | Tōdaiji |  | in Nara | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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