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title: Then a sea-wind, rising, blew destruction into further streets; and… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a sea-wind, rising, blew destruction into further streets; and the conflagration spread from street to street, and from district into district, till nearly the whole of the city was consumed. Who acts: sea wind, conflagration. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with it
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 80

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Then a sea-wind, rising, blew destruction into further streets; and the conflagration spread from street to street, and from district into district, till nearly the whole of the city was consumed.

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**Who acts:** sea wind, conflagration · **What happens:** rise, blow, spread, consume · **To what, where:** destruction, further streets, street

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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 (sea wind, conflagration), 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:pg8128:1:81
# text = Then a sea-wind, rising, blew destruction into further streets; and the conflagration spread from street to street, and from district into district, till nearly the whole of the city was consumed.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	conflagration	conflagration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	advcl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund | a sea wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **blow** | past | a sea wind | destruction |  | further streets | then |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent destruction=Material into street=Product |
| 3 | **spread** | past | the conflagration |  |  | street |  | to street; from district; into district | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into district=Destination |
| 4 | **consume** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP» |

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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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