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title: But poems can be found upon almost any kind of domestic utensil,—for… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But poems can be found upon almost any kind of domestic utensil,—for example upon braziers, iron kettles, vases, wooden trays, lacquer ware, porcelains, chopsticks of the finer sort,—even toothpicks! Who acts: example. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 108

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But poems can be found upon almost any kind of domestic utensil,—for example upon braziers, iron kettles, vases, wooden trays, lacquer ware, porcelains, chopsticks of the finer sort,—even toothpicks!

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**Who acts:** example · **What happens:** find, lacquer · **To what, where:** poems, ware

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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 (example), 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:pg8128:9:109
# text = But poems can be found upon almost any kind of domestic utensil,—for example upon braziers, iron kettles, vases, wooden trays, lacquer ware, porcelains, chopsticks of the finer sort,—even toothpicks!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	utensil	utensil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	braziers	brazier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	kettles	kettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	vases	vas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	trays	tray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	lacquer	lacquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
29	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	porcelains	porcelain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	toothpicks	toothpick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | can · passive |  | poems |  |  |  | upon any kind of domestic utensil | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **lacquer** | infinitive | example upon braziers and iron kettles and vases and wooden trays | ware and porcelains and chopsticks of the finer sort and toothpicks |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=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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