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title: But a dog’s organs of scent proclaim a faculty immeasurably superior… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But a dog’s organs of scent proclaim a faculty immeasurably superior to the sense of smell in man. Who acts: organs. 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 38

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But a dog’s organs of scent proclaim a faculty immeasurably superior to the sense of smell in man.

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**Who acts:** organs · **What happens:** proclaim, sense · **To what, where:** faculty, smell

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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 (organs), 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:pg8128:9:38
# text = But a dog’s organs of scent proclaim a faculty immeasurably superior to the sense of smell in man.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	organs	organ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	faculty	faculty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	immeasurably	immeasurably	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proclaim** | present | a dog's organs of scent | a faculty |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faculty=Theme |
| 2 | **sense** |  |  | smell in man |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition 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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