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title: About them now was frigidness of death,—and silence tremendous…. — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: About them now was frigidness of death,—and silence tremendous…. 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 26

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About them now was frigidness of death,—and silence tremendous….

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**Who acts:** Stars · **What happens:** be

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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:pg8128:1:26
# text = About them now was frigidness of death,—and silence tremendous….
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	frigidness	frigidness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	….	..	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Stars *= star* |  |  |  | now | about frigidness; of death | tree rules |

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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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