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title: [4] Lit.: “The thousand-character” sign. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: [4] Lit.: “The thousand-character” sign. 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 62

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\[4\] Lit.: “The thousand-character” sign.

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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: 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:pg8128:8:63
# text = [4] Lit.: “The thousand-character” sign.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Lit	lit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.:	.:	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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