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title: On the sole-part of each footprint there is the impression of a whee… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: On the sole-part of each footprint there is the impression of a wheel; and upon each of the prints of the ten toes there is a flower-like design, which sometimes radiates light. Who acts: impression, like design. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, wit
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 28

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On the sole-part of each footprint there is the impression of a wheel; and upon each of the prints of the ten toes there is a flower-like design, which sometimes radiates light.

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**Who acts:** impression, like design · **What happens:** be, radiate, impress, print · **To what, where:** sole part, ten toes, light, wheel

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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: who acts (impression, like design), 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:pg8128:8:29
# text = On the sole-part of each footprint there is the impression of a wheel; and upon each of the prints of the ten toes there is a flower-like design, which sometimes radiates light.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	footprint	footprint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	prints	print	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
37	radiates	radiate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | the impression of a wheel |  |  | the sole part of each footprint; there |  | upon each of the prints of the ten toes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on part=Location |
| 2 | **be** | present | a like design | the ten toes *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot toe=Theme |
| 3 | **radiate** | present | a like design | light |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Source |
| 4 | **impress** |  |  | a wheel |  |  |  |  | nom impression «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **print** |  |  | the ten toes |  |  |  |  | nom print «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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