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title: I got some information about them from the _Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan_,—a book… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I got some information about them from the _Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan_,—a book used by the Jodo sect. Who acts: I. 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 47

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I got some information about them from the \_Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan\_,—a book used by the Jodo sect.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get, use · **To what, where:** information, Kwan, book

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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), 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:pg8128:8:48
# text = I got some information about them from the _Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan_,—a book used by the Jodo sect.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Shō	Shō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Ekō	Ekō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Hō	Hō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Kwan	Kwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
22	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Jodo	Jodo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	sect	sect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | I | some information |  | the Kwan  Shō and Ekō and Hō |  | about Footprints *= footprint* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent information=Theme from kwan=Source |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | a book *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Jodo sect | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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