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title: Old superstitions of the coast recurred to me,—old vague warnings of… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Old superstitions of the coast recurred to me,—old vague warnings of peril in the time of the passage of Souls. Who acts: Souls. 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 115

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Old superstitions of the coast recurred to me,—old vague warnings of peril in the time of the passage of Souls.

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**Who acts:** Souls · **What happens:** recur, warn, pass · **To what, where:** Old superstitions, me, old vague warnings, peril

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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 (Souls), 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:pg8128:27:116
# text = Old superstitions of the coast recurred to me,—old vague warnings of peril in the time of the passage of Souls.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	superstitions	superstition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	recurred	recur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	warnings	warning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	peril	peril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recur** | participle |  | Old superstitions of the coast *not said here* | me |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **warn** |  |  | peril |  |  | in the time of the passage of Souls |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient in=obl |
| 4 | **pass** |  | Souls |  |  |  |  |  | nom passage «act 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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