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title: The book _Shin-zoku-butsu-ji-hen_ calls it the symbol of the voice o… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The book _Shin-zoku-butsu-ji-hen_ calls it the symbol of the voice of the Buddha. Who acts: book. 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 74

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The book \_Shin-zoku-butsu-ji-hen\_ calls it the symbol of the voice of the Buddha.

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**Who acts:** book · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Law · **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), 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:pg8128:8:75
# text = The book _Shin-zoku-butsu-ji-hen_ calls it the symbol of the voice of the Buddha.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Shin	shin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	zoku	zoku	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	butsu	butsu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ji	JI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | the book | Law |  |  |  | Shin zoku butsu *nsubj*; hen \_ *nsubj*; the symbol of the voice of the Buddha *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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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