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title: But presently there came to me the conviction that fear of the sea a… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But presently there came to me the conviction that fear of the sea alone could represent but one element of the multitudinous awe awakened by its voice. Who acts: fear. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 172

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But presently there came to me the conviction that fear of the sea alone could represent but one element of the multitudinous awe awakened by its voice.

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**Who acts:** fear · **What happens:** come, represent, awaken, fear · **To what, where:** conviction, me, multitudinous awe, sea

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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 (fear), 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:pg8128:27:173
# text = But presently there came to me the conviction that fear of the sea alone could represent but one element of the multitudinous awe awakened by its voice.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	conviction	conviction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
10	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	multitudinous	multitudinous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the conviction | me | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **represent** | could | fear of the sea | the conviction |  |  |  | one element of the multitudinous awe *conj* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 3 | **awaken** | participle |  | the multitudinous awe *not said here* |  |  |  | by fear's voice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by voice=Location |
| 4 | **fear** |  |  | the sea |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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