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title: _The mind that, undimmed, absorbs the foul and the pure together— Ca… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: _The mind that, undimmed, absorbs the foul and the pure together— Call it rather a sea one thousand fathoms deep! A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Sublimity of Intellectual Power, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Sublimity of Intellectual Power, sentence 1

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\_The mind that, undimmed, absorbs the foul and the pure together— Call it rather a sea one thousand fathoms deep!

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**What happens:** absorb, call · **To what, where:** foul · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Sublimity of Intellectual Power. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8128:22:1
# text = _The mind that, undimmed, absorbs the foul and the pure together— Call it rather a sea one thousand fathoms deep!
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	undimmed	undimmed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	absorbs	absorb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	foul	foul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	fathoms	fathom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	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 | **absorb** | present |  | the foul |  |  |  | together *property* | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal foul=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive |  | foul |  |  |  | a sea *xcomp*; deep *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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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