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title: High zones of mist they passed; and they saw below them, ever wideni… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: High zones of mist they passed; and they saw below them, ever widening as they climbed, a soundless flood of cloud, like the tide of a milky sea. Who acts: High zones, zones, Stars, cloud. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 20

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High zones of mist they passed; and they saw below them, ever widening as they climbed, a soundless flood of cloud, like the tide of a milky sea.

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**Who acts:** High zones, zones, Stars, cloud, milky sea · **What happens:** pass, see, widen, climb, flood, tide · **To what, where:** soundless flood

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (High zones, zones, Stars, cloud), 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:pg8128:1:20
# text = High zones of mist they passed; and they saw below them, ever widening as they climbed, a soundless flood of cloud, like the tide of a milky sea.
1	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	below	below	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	widening	widen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	soundless	soundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	milky	milky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | High zones |  |  |  |  | of mist; zones *= zone* *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of mist=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | zones *= zone* |  |  |  |  | below Stars *= star* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **widen** | gerund | zones *= zone* *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **climb** | past | Stars *= star* | a soundless flood of cloud |  |  |  | like the tide of a milky sea | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **flood** |  | cloud |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **tide** |  | a milky sea |  |  |  |  |  | nom tide «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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