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title: “Sei-iki”(the Country of the West) was the old Japanese name for Ind… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Sei-iki”(the Country of the West) was the old Japanese name for India; and thus the title might be rendered, “The Book about India.” Who acts: Sei iki. 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 36

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“Sei-iki”(the Country of the West) was the old Japanese name for India; and thus the title might be rendered, “The Book about India.”

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**Who acts:** Sei iki · **What happens:** be, render · **To what, where:** old Japanese name, 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: who acts (Sei iki), 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:pg8128:8:37
# text = “Sei-iki”(the Country of the West) was the old Japanese name for India; and thus the title might be rendered, “The Book about India.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sei	sei	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	iki	iki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Sei iki | the old Japanese name |  |  |  | for India | tree rules |
| 2 | **render** | might · passive |  | the title |  |  |  | the Book about India *obl*; thus *property* | vn give-13.1 «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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