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title: I suppose this is the work known to Western scholars as _Si-yu-ki_. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I suppose this is the work known to Western scholars as _Si-yu-ki_. Who acts: I, this. 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 37

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I suppose this is the work known to Western scholars as \_Si-yu-ki\_.

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**Who acts:** I, this · **What happens:** suppose, be, know · **To what, where:** work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, this), 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:pg8128:8:38
# text = I suppose this is the work known to Western scholars as _Si-yu-ki_.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	yu	yu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	ki	ki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this | the work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | the work *not said here* |  |  |  | to Western scholars; as Si ki | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as ki=Attribute |

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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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