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title: This emblem, called in Japanese _Senfuku-rin-sō_, is curiously expla… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: This emblem, called in Japanese _Senfuku-rin-sō_, is curiously explained by various quotations. Who acts: Senfuku, various quotations. 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 82

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This emblem, called in Japanese \_Senfuku-rin-sō\_, is curiously explained by various quotations.

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**Who acts:** Senfuku, various quotations · **What happens:** call, \_, explain · **To what, where:** emblem, Japanese · **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 (Senfuku, various quotations), 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:pg8128:8:83
# text = This emblem, called in Japanese _Senfuku-rin-sō_, is curiously explained by various quotations.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	emblem	emblem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Japanese	Japanese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Senfuku	Senfuku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	rin	rin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	sō	sō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	quotations	quotation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | this emblem and rin sō \_ *not said here* |  | Japanese |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **\_** |  | Senfuku |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present · passive | various quotations | this emblem and rin sō \_ |  |  |  | curiously *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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