--- title: Dive into such a night-sea;—open your eyes in the black-blue gloom,… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: Dive into such a night-sea;—open your eyes in the black-blue gloom, and watch the weird gush of lights that follow your every motion: each luminous point, as seen through the flood, like the opening and closing of an eye! Who acts: you, lights, your. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hear --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/165/) [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/) / 165 # In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 165 Dive into such a night-sea;—open your eyes in the black-blue gloom, and watch the weird gush of lights that follow your every motion: each luminous point, as seen through the flood, like the opening and closing of an eye! **Who acts:** you, lights, your · **What happens:** dive, open, watch, follow, see, gush · **To what, where:** luminous point, night sea, eyes, blue gloom, weird gush, motion 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 (you, lights, your), 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:pg8128:27:166 # text = Dive into such a night-sea;—open your eyes in the black-blue gloom, and watch the weird gush of lights that follow your every motion: each luminous point, as seen through the flood, like the opening and closing of an eye! 1 Dive dive VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 3 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 7 det:predet _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 — - PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 open open VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 gloom gloom NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 gush gush NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 motion motion NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 34 luminous luminous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 39 through through ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 opening opening NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 closing closing NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dive** | imperative | you *not said here* | each luminous point | | such night sea | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Location | | 2 | **open** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your eyes | | the blue gloom | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme in gloom=Location | | 3 | **watch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the weird gush of lights | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gush=Theme | | 4 | **follow** | present | lights | your motion | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motion=Theme | | 5 | **see** | participle | | each luminous point *not said here* | | the flood | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **gush** | | lights | | | | | | nom gush «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **motion** | | your | | | | | | nom motion «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/164/) - next →: [sentence 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/166/) - ↑ back to [Story of a Tengu\[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/)