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title: Yet still they climbed,—fast, fast,—mounting by help of power superh… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet still they climbed,—fast, fast,—mounting by help of power superhuman. Who acts: Stars. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 25

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Yet still they climbed,—fast, fast,—mounting by help of power superhuman.

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**Who acts:** Stars · **What happens:** climb, help · **To what, where:** mounting, power superhuman

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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 (Stars), 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:pg8128:1:25
# text = Yet still they climbed,—fast, fast,—mounting by help of power superhuman.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	mounting	mounting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	superhuman	superhuman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | Stars *= star* | mounting |  |  | still | by help of power superhuman; fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by help=Trajectory |
| 2 | **help** |  |  | power superhuman |  |  |  |  | nom help «act 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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