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title: Therefore preaching the doctrine is called, ‘turning the Wheel.’”… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore preaching the doctrine is called, ‘turning the Wheel.’”… Who acts: preaching. 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 84

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Therefore preaching the doctrine is called, ‘turning the Wheel.’”…

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**Who acts:** preaching · **What happens:** preach, call, turn · **To what, where:** doctrine, Wheel · **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 (preaching), 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:pg8128:8:85
# text = Therefore preaching the doctrine is called, ‘turning the Wheel.’”…
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	preaching	preach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj:pass	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Wheel	Wheel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	…	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preach** *speech: other* | gerund |  | the doctrine |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctrine=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive | preaching |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | preaching *not said here* | the Wheel |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme wheel=Result |

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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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