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title: A faint cold thrill passed over me,—perhaps some chill uprising from… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: A faint cold thrill passed over me,—perhaps some chill uprising from the depths,—perhaps the creeping only of a ghostly fancy. Who acts: some. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 114

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A faint cold thrill passed over me,—perhaps some chill uprising from the depths,—perhaps the creeping only of a ghostly fancy.

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**Who acts:** some · **What happens:** pass, chill, upris, creep · **To what, where:** faint cold thrill, depths

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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 (some), 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:pg8128:27:115
# text = A faint cold thrill passed over me,—perhaps some chill uprising from the depths,—perhaps the creeping only of a ghostly fancy.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thrill	thrill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
12	chill	chill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	uprising	upris	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
21	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	nsubj	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  | a faint cold thrill *not said here* |  |  |  | over me | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over i=Location |
| 2 | **chill** | present | some |  |  |  |  | of the ghostly fancy; perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **upris** | gerund | some *not said here* |  |  | the depths |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **creep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «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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