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title: This book also contains rough woodcuts of the footprints; and one of… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: This book also contains rough woodcuts of the footprints; and one of them I reproduce here for the purpose of calling attention to the curious form of the emblems upon the toes. Who acts: book, one, purpose. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, with its
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 48

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This book also contains rough woodcuts of the footprints; and one of them I reproduce here for the purpose of calling attention to the curious form of the emblems upon the toes.

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**Who acts:** book, one, purpose · **What happens:** contain, reproduce, call, form · **To what, where:** rough woodcuts, attention, curious form, emblems · **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 (book, one, purpose), 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:pg8128:8:49
# text = This book also contains rough woodcuts of the footprints; and one of them I reproduce here for the purpose of calling attention to the curious form of the emblems upon the toes.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	woodcuts	woodcut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	footprints	footprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	reproduce	reproduce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	emblems	emblem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | this book | rough woodcuts of the footprints |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot woodcut=Theme |
| 2 | **reproduce** | present | one of Footprints |  |  | here |  | for the purpose; I *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | the purpose *not said here* | attention | the curious form of the emblems upon the toes |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Topic to form=Recipient |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | the emblems upon the toes |  |  |  |  | nom form «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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