--- title: I have noticed that even animals,—horses and cows,—become meditative… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: I have noticed that even animals,—horses and cows,—become meditative in the presence of the sea: they stand and stare and listen as if the sight and sound of that immensity made them forget all else in the world. Who acts: I, animals, horses, sight. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/156/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Story of a Tengu\[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/) / 156 # In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 156 I have noticed that even animals,—horses and cows,—become meditative in the presence of the sea: they stand and stare and listen as if the sight and sound of that immensity made them forget all else in the world. **Who acts:** I, animals, horses, sight · **What happens:** notice, become, stand, stare, listen, make · **To what, where:** horses, world 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 (I, animals, horses, sight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8128:27:157 # text = I have noticed that even animals,—horses and cows,—become meditative in the presence of the sea: they stand and stare and listen as if the sight and sound of that immensity made them forget all else in the world. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 noticed notice VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 5 even even ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 — - PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 15 meditative meditative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 stare stare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 listen listen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 immensity immensity NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 all all ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 else else ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **notice** | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **become** | infinitive | animals | | | | | horses and cows *nsubj*; meditative *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **stand** | present | horses *= horse* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stare** | present | horses *= horse* *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **listen** | present | horses *= horse* *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | past | the sight and sound of that immensity | horses *= horse* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **forget** | infinitive | horses *= horse* *not said here* | | | the world | | else *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/155/) - next →: [sentence 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/157/) - ↑ back to [Story of a Tengu\[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/)