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description: Indeed their outline so much resembles the conventional flamelet-design of Buddhist decoration, that I cannot help thinking them originally intended to indicate the traditional luminosity of the footprints. Who acts: outline, I. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Us
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 51

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Indeed their outline so much resembles the conventional flamelet-design of Buddhist decoration, that I cannot help thinking them originally intended to indicate the traditional luminosity of the footprints.

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**Who acts:** outline, I · **What happens:** resemble, not help, think, intend, indicate, design · **To what, where:** conventional flamelet design, Footprints, traditional luminosity, Buddhist decoration

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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 (outline, 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:pg8128:8:52
# text = Indeed their outline so much resembles the conventional flamelet-design of Buddhist decoration, that I cannot help thinking them originally intended to indicate the traditional luminosity of the footprints.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	outline	outline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	resembles	resemble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	conventional	conventional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	flamelet	flamelet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	decoration	decoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
21	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	indicate	indicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	luminosity	luminosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	footprints	footprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **resemble** | present | Footprints's outline | the conventional flamelet design of Buddhist decoration |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **help** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | gerund | I *not said here* | Footprints *= footprint* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 4 | **intend** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | originally *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **indicate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the traditional luminosity of the footprints |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot luminosity=Topic |
| 6 | **design** |  |  | Buddhist decoration |  |  |  |  | nom design «act 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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