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title: How indescribably complex such motion is,—yet how eternally new! — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: How indescribably complex such motion is,—yet how eternally new! Who acts: complex such motion. 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 152

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How indescribably complex such motion is,—yet how eternally new!

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**Who acts:** complex such motion · **What happens:** be

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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 (complex such motion), 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:pg8128:27:153
# text = How indescribably complex such motion is,—yet how eternally new!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	indescribably	indescribably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	complex	complex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	eternally	eternally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | complex such motion |  |  |  |  | indescribably *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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