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title: As for visible poetry, it appears everywhere, written or graven,—in… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: As for visible poetry, it appears everywhere, written or graven,—in Chinese or in Japanese characters,—as a form of decoration. Who acts: it. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 105

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As for visible poetry, it appears everywhere, written or graven,—in Chinese or in Japanese characters,—as a form of decoration.

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**Who acts:** it · **What happens:** appear, write, grave, form · **To what, where:** decoration

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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:pg8128:9:106
# text = As for visible poetry, it appears everywhere, written or graven,—in Chinese or in Japanese characters,—as a form of decoration.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	graven	grave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	decoration	decoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | it |  |  |  |  | as visible poetry; Chinese Japanese characters *conj*; everywhere *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | decoration |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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