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title: _(2) Strangely sad, I thought, sounded the bell of evening;— Haply t… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _(2) Strangely sad, I thought, sounded the bell of evening;— Haply that tone proclaimed the night in which autumn dies! Who acts: I, tone. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Autumn Fancies, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Autumn Fancies, sentence 2

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\_(2) Strangely sad, I thought, sounded the bell of evening;— Haply that tone proclaimed the night in which autumn dies!

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**Who acts:** I, tone · **What happens:** think, sound, proclaim, die · **To what, where:** bell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Autumn Fancies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tone), 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:pg8128:19:3
# text = _(2) Strangely sad, I thought, sounded the bell of evening;— Haply that tone proclaimed the night in which autumn dies!
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Strangely	strangely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Haply	haply	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	csubj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	26	det	_	_
26	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	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 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** | past |  | the bell of evening |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 3 | **proclaim** | past | tone |  |  |  | autumn; night |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **die** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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