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title: [5] The Japanese commentator explains the svastikâ as a symbol of “e… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [5] The Japanese commentator explains the svastikâ as a symbol of “everlasting bliss.” Who acts: 5. 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 61

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\[5\] The Japanese commentator explains the svastikâ as a symbol of “everlasting bliss.”

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**Who acts:** 5 · **What happens:** explain · **To what, where:** svastikâ

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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 (5), 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:pg8128:8:62
# text = [5] The Japanese commentator explains the svastikâ as a symbol of “everlasting bliss.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	commentator	commentator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	svastikâ	svastikâ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bliss	bliss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | 5 | the svastikâ |  |  |  | as a symbol of everlasting bliss; the Japanese commentator *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent svastikâ=Topic |

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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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