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title: _O vapory moon of spring!—would that one plunge into ocean Could win… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _O vapory moon of spring!—would that one plunge into ocean Could win me renewal of life as a part of thy light on the waters! Who acts: one plunge, thy. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Moonlight on the Sea, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Moonlight on the Sea, sentence 1

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\_O vapory moon of spring!—would that one plunge into ocean Could win me renewal of life as a part of thy light on the waters!

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**Who acts:** one plunge, thy · **What happens:** win, renew, light · **To what, where:** renewal, me, waters, life

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Moonlight on the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one plunge, thy), 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:pg8128:16:1
# text = _O vapory moon of spring!—would that one plunge into ocean Could win me renewal of life as a part of thy light on the waters!
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	4	case	_	_
3	vapory	vapory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	plunge	plunge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	renewal	renewal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | could | that one plunge into ocean | renewal of life | me | the waters |  | as a part of thy light | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary renewal=Theme |
| 3 | **renew** |  |  | life |  |  |  |  | nom renewal «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **light** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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