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description: Then I found myself thinking of the vague terror with which I had listened, when a child, to the voice of the sea;—and I remembered that in after-years, on different coasts in different parts of the world, the sound of surf had always revived the childish emotion. Who acts: I, myself. A sentence of 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 170

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Then I found myself thinking of the vague terror with which I had listened, when a child, to the voice of the sea;—and I remembered that in after-years, on different coasts in different parts of the world, the sound of surf had always revived the childish emotion.

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**Who acts:** I, myself · **What happens:** find, think, listen, remember, revive · **To what, where:** myself, different coasts, sound

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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 (I, myself), 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:pg8128:27:171
# text = Then I found myself thinking of the vague terror with which I had listened, when a child, to the voice of the sea;—and I remembered that in after-years, on different coasts in different parts of the world, the sound of surf had always revived the childish emotion.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	53	advmod	_	_
53	revived	revive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	childish	childish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	emotion	emotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | I | myself |  |  | then |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | myself *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the vague terror and a child; to the voice of the sea | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | with the vague terror and a child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **remember** | past | I |  |  | different coasts in different parts of the world |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **revive** | past · perfect · passive |  | the sound of surf |  |  |  | the childish emotion *obj*; always *property* | tree rules |

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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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