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title: While thus asking, her voice had gradually become clear and strong,—… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: While thus asking, her voice had gradually become clear and strong,—as if the intensity of the wish had given her new force: then she suddenly burst into tears. Who acts: voice. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, with its d
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 86

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While thus asking, her voice had gradually become clear and strong,—as if the intensity of the wish had given her new force: then she suddenly burst into tears.

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**Who acts:** voice · **What happens:** ask, become, give, burst · **To what, where:** intensity, tears

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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:pg8128:26:86
# text = While thus asking, her voice had gradually become clear and strong,—as if the intensity of the wish had given her new force: then she suddenly burst into tears.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
10	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	intensity	intensity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect | yaë's voice |  |  |  |  | clear, gradually *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the intensity of the wish |  |  |  | yaë's new force *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient force=Theme |
| 4 | **burst** | past | voice |  |  | tears | then | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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