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title: But the primitive fancy may be roused even more strongly in darkness… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But the primitive fancy may be roused even more strongly in darkness than by daylight. 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 163

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But the primitive fancy may be roused even more strongly in darkness than by daylight.

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**What happens:** rouse · **To what, where:** primitive fancy, darkness

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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: 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:pg8128:27:164
# text = But the primitive fancy may be roused even more strongly in darkness than by daylight.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	roused	rouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rouse** | may · passive |  | the primitive fancy |  | darkness |  | than daylight; strongly *property* | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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