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title: At such a moment, one feels indeed as if enveloped by some monstrous… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: At such a moment, one feels indeed as if enveloped by some monstrous sentiency,—suspended within some vital substance that feels and sees and wills alike in every part, an infinite soft cold Ghost. Who acts: one, vital substance. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 166

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At such a moment, one feels indeed as if enveloped by some monstrous sentiency,—suspended within some vital substance that feels and sees and wills alike in every part, an infinite soft cold Ghost.

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**Who acts:** one, vital substance · **What happens:** feel, envelop, suspend, see, will · **To what, where:** part

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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 (one, vital substance), 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:pg8128:27:167
# text = At such a moment, one feels indeed as if enveloped by some monstrous sentiency,—suspended within some vital substance that feels and sees and wills alike in every part, an infinite soft cold Ghost.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
7	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	enveloped	envelop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sentiency	sentiency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	vital	vital	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	wills	will	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	alike	alike	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | one |  |  |  | moment | indeed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **envelop** | participle | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by some monstrous sentiency | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **suspend** | past | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within some vital substance | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | present | some vital substance |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | present | some vital substance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **will** | present | some vital substance *not said here* |  |  | every part |  | alike *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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