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title: [1] The Chinese title is pronounced by Japanese as _Sei-iki-ki_. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [1] The Chinese title is pronounced by Japanese as _Sei-iki-ki_. 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 35

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\[1\] The Chinese title is pronounced by Japanese as \_Sei-iki-ki\_.

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**What happens:** pronounce · **To what, where:** Chinese title

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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:pg8128:8:36
# text = [1] The Chinese title is pronounced by Japanese as _Sei-iki-ki_.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Sei	sei	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	iki	iki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	ki	ki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | present · passive |  | the Chinese title |  |  |  | by Japanese as iki ki  Sei; 1 *discourse* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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