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title: Poems are inlaid upon enamelled ware, cut upon bronzes, graven upon… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Poems are inlaid upon enamelled ware, cut upon bronzes, graven upon metal pipes, embroidered upon tobacco-pouches. 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 112

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Poems are inlaid upon enamelled ware, cut upon bronzes, graven upon metal pipes, embroidered upon tobacco-pouches.

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**What happens:** inlay, enamell, cut, grave, embroider · **To what, where:** Poems, bronzes, metal pipes, tobacco pouches

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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: 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:pg8128:9:113
# text = Poems are inlaid upon enamelled ware, cut upon bronzes, graven upon metal pipes, embroidered upon tobacco-pouches.
1	Poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	inlaid	inlay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	enamelled	enamell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bronzes	bronze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	graven	grave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	pouches	pouch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inlay** | present · passive |  | Poems |  |  |  | upon enamelled ware | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **enamell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | upon bronzes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **grave** | participle |  | bronzes *not said here* |  |  |  | upon metal pipes | tree rules |
| 5 | **embroider** | participle |  | metal pipes *not said here* |  | tobacco pouches |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon pouch=Destination |

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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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