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title: Soon the thought-light in each burns itself out: then the poor frame… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon the thought-light in each burns itself out: then the poor frames, and all that is left of their once fair colors, must melt forever into the colorless Void. Who acts: thought light. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 112

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Soon the thought-light in each burns itself out: then the poor frames, and all that is left of their once fair colors, must melt forever into the colorless Void.

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**Who acts:** thought light · **What happens:** burn out, leave, melt · **To what, where:** light, that, colorless Void

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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 (thought light), 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:pg8128:27:113
# text = Soon the thought-light in each burns itself out: then the poor frames, and all that is left of their once fair colors, must melt forever into the colorless Void.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
8	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	frames	frame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	advmod	_	_
25	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	melt	melt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
30	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	colorless	colorless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Void	Void	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn out** | present | the thought light in each | light |  |  |  | the poor frames *obl*; soon *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  | of frames's fair colors | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of color=Destination |
| 3 | **melt** | must |  |  |  | the colorless Void |  | forever *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into void=Product |

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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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