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title: But I think that the inscriptions upon any of these _Butsu-soku-séki… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But I think that the inscriptions upon any of these _Butsu-soku-séki_ will be found of more significance than the above imperfect attempts at an explanation of the emblems. Who acts: I, emblems. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6, with its dependency t
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 88

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But I think that the inscriptions upon any of these \_Butsu-soku-séki\_ will be found of more significance than the above imperfect attempts at an explanation of the emblems.

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**Who acts:** I, emblems · **What happens:** think, find, explain · **To what, where:** inscriptions · **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 (I, emblems), 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:pg8128:8:89
# text = But I think that the inscriptions upon any of these _Butsu-soku-séki_ will be found of more significance than the above imperfect attempts at an explanation of the emblems.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nmod	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Butsu	Butsu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	soku	soku	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	séki	séki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	significance	significance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	above	above	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	imperfect	imperfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	emblems	emblem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | future · passive |  | the inscriptions upon any of these |  |  |  | of more significance than the above imperfect attempts at a explanation of the emblems; Butsu séki \_ *nsubj:pass* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **explain** |  | the emblems |  |  |  |  |  | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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