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title: Each, with its quiver of color, seemed a life afraid,—trembling on t… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Each, with its quiver of color, seemed a life afraid,—trembling on the blind current that was bearing it into the outer blackness…. Who acts: quiver, blind current, color. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 110

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Each, with its quiver of color, seemed a life afraid,—trembling on the blind current that was bearing it into the outer blackness….

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**Who acts:** quiver, blind current, color · **What happens:** seem, tremble, bear, quiver · **To what, where:** life, blind current

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu\[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quiver, blind current, color), 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:pg8128:27:111
# text = Each, with its quiver of color, seemed a life afraid,—trembling on the blind current that was bearing it into the outer blackness….
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	blackness	blackness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	….	..	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | impulse's quiver of color | a life |  |  |  | afraid *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Attribute |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund | impulse's quiver of color *not said here* |  |  | the blind current |  | into the outer blackness | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on current=Location |
| 3 | **bear** | past · progressive | the blind current | life |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **quiver** |  | color |  |  |  |  |  | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: of=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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