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title: Consonantly to its multiple utterance must respond all waves of imme… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Consonantly to its multiple utterance must respond all waves of immemorial fear that move in the vaster sea of soul-experience. Who acts: immemorial fear, fear. 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 175

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Consonantly to its multiple utterance must respond all waves of immemorial fear that move in the vaster sea of soul-experience.

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**Who acts:** immemorial fear, fear · **What happens:** respond, move, utter, wave · **To what, where:** waves, multiple utterance, vaster sea, immemorial fear

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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 (immemorial fear, 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:pg8128:27:176
# text = Consonantly to its multiple utterance must respond all waves of immemorial fear that move in the vaster sea of soul-experience.
1	Consonantly	consonantly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	multiple	multiple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	respond	respond	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	immemorial	immemorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	vaster	vast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | must |  | all waves of immemorial fear | fear's multiple utterance |  |  | consonantly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wave=Topic to utterance=Recipient |
| 2 | **move** | present | immemorial fear |  |  | the vaster sea of soul experience |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory |
| 3 | **utter** |  | fear |  |  |  |  |  | nom utterance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **wave** |  |  | immemorial fear |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event 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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