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title: _(1) I sought in the place of graves the tomb of my vanished friend:… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _(1) I sought in the place of graves the tomb of my vanished friend: From ancient cedars above there rippled a wild doves cry. Who acts: _, wild doves. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Fancies of Another Faith, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Fancies of Another Faith, sentence 1

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\_(1) I sought in the place of graves the tomb of my vanished friend: From ancient cedars above there rippled a wild doves cry.

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**Who acts:** \_, wild doves · **What happens:** seek, vanish, ripple, cry · **To what, where:** place, ancient cedars

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Fancies of Another Faith. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, wild doves), 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:pg8128:13:1
# text = _(1) I sought in the place of graves the tomb of my vanished friend: From ancient cedars above there rippled a wild doves cry.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	From	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cedars	cedar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
22	above	above	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	rippled	ripple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | \_ |  |  | the place of graves |  | I *nsubj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 2 | **vanish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ripple** | past | \_ *not said here* |  |  | ancient cedars; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | a wild doves |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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