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title: And the horror of stupendous height, and the nightmare of stupendous… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And the horror of stupendous height, and the nightmare of stupendous depth, and the terror of silence, ever grew and grew, and weighed upon the pilgrim, and held his feet,—so that suddenly all power departed from him, and he moaned like a sleeper in dreams. Who acts: power. A sentence of «In Ghostly
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 34

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And the horror of stupendous height, and the nightmare of stupendous depth, and the terror of silence, ever grew and grew, and weighed upon the pilgrim, and held his feet,—so that suddenly all power departed from him, and he moaned like a sleeper in dreams.

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**Who acts:** power · **What happens:** grow, weigh, hold, depart, moan · **To what, where:** feet, horror

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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 (power), 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:pg8128:1:34
# text = And the horror of stupendous height, and the nightmare of stupendous depth, and the terror of silence, ever grew and grew, and weighed upon the pilgrim, and held his feet,—so that suddenly all power departed from him, and he moaned like a sleeper in dreams.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	stupendous	stupendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nightmare	nightmare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	stupendous	stupendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	43	mark	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	fixed	_	_
40	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
42	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	moaned	moan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
50	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past |  |  |  |  | ever |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **weigh** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon the pilgrim | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | past |  | sun's feet |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 5 | **depart** | past | all power | sun's feet *not said here* |  |  |  | from sun | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foot=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **moan** | past | power |  |  |  |  | like a sleeper; in dreams | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dream=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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