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title: The _Dai-hi-kyō_ calls it the token of the preaching and of the powe… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Dai-hi-kyō_ calls it the token of the preaching and of the power of the Mahayana doctrine. Who acts: kyō _. 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 75

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The \_Dai-hi-kyō\_ calls it the token of the preaching and of the power of the Mahayana doctrine.

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**Who acts:** kyō \_ · **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 (kyō \_), 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:pg8128:8:76
# text = The _Dai-hi-kyō_ calls it the token of the preaching and of the power of the Mahayana doctrine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Dai	Dai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	hi	hi	NOUN	NN	_	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	kyō	kyō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	preaching	preaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Mahayana	Mahayana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **call** | present | the kyō \_ | Law |  |  |  | the token of the preaching and the power of the Mahayana doctrine *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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