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title: _(3) Viewing this autumn-moon, I dream of my native village Under th… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _(3) Viewing this autumn-moon, I dream of my native village Under the same soft light,—and the shadows about my home. Who acts: _. 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 3

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\_(3) Viewing this autumn-moon, I dream of my native village Under the same soft light,—and the shadows about my home.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** view, dream · **To what, where:** autumn moon, same soft light

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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 (\_), 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:pg8128:19:5
# text = _(3) Viewing this autumn-moon, I dream of my native village Under the same soft light,—and the shadows about my home.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Viewing	view	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
7	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dream	dream	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **view** | gerund | \_ *not said here* | this autumn moon |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dream** | present | \_ |  |  | the same soft light |  | of my native village; I *nsubj* | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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