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title: It were a hopeless effort to enumerate a tithe of the articles decor… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: It were a hopeless effort to enumerate a tithe of the articles decorated with poetical texts. Who acts: example. 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 113

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It were a hopeless effort to enumerate a tithe of the articles decorated with poetical texts.

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**Who acts:** example · **What happens:** be, enumerate, decorate · **To what, where:** hopeless effort, tithe, articles

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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:pg8128:9:114
# text = It were a hopeless effort to enumerate a tithe of the articles decorated with poetical texts.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	enumerate	enumerate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tithe	tithe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	poetical	poetical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | example | a hopeless effort |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enumerate** | to-infinitive |  | a tithe of the articles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **decorate** | participle |  | the articles *not said here* |  |  |  | with poetical texts | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with text=Theme |

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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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