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title: And probably no mortal ever watched the ocean-roll or heard its thun… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And probably no mortal ever watched the ocean-roll or heard its thunder without feeling serious. Who acts: mortal. 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 155

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And probably no mortal ever watched the ocean-roll or heard its thunder without feeling serious.

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**Who acts:** mortal · **What happens:** watch, hear, feel, thunder · **To what, where:** ocean roll, thunder

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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 (mortal), 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:pg8128:27:156
# text = And probably no mortal ever watched the ocean-roll or heard its thunder without feeling serious.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | no mortal | the ocean roll |  |  | ever | probably *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | no mortal *not said here* | mortal's thunder |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feel** | gerund | no mortal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **thunder** |  | mortal |  |  |  |  |  | nom thunder «event intransitive»: poss=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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