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description: Of course I do not mean that the riddle presents itself to her as it does to us,—nor that she can have reached any abstract conclusions by any mental processes like our own. Who acts: I, riddle, faith. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with its depen
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 76

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Of course I do not mean that the riddle presents itself to her as it does to us,—nor that she can have reached any abstract conclusions by any mental processes like our own.

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**Who acts:** I, riddle, faith · **What happens:** not mean, present, do, reach · **To what, where:** riddle, faith, us, abstract conclusions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, riddle, faith), 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:pg8128:9:76
# text = Of course I do not mean that the riddle presents itself to her as it does to us,—nor that she can have reached any abstract conclusions by any mental processes like our own.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	presents	present	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	abstract	abstract	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	conclusions	conclusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	processes	process	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **present** | present | the riddle | riddle | faith |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Theme to she=Recipient |
| 3 | **do** | present | riddle |  | us |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reach** | can · perfect | faith | any abstract conclusions |  |  |  | by any mental processes like our own | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent conclusion=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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