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title: The visible abyss calls to that abyss invisible of elder being whose… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The visible abyss calls to that abyss invisible of elder being whose flood-flow made the ghosts of us. Who acts: visible abyss calls. 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 177

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The visible abyss calls to that abyss invisible of elder being whose flood-flow made the ghosts of us.

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**Who acts:** visible abyss calls · **What happens:** be, make, ghost · **To what, where:** invisible flood flow, ghosts, us

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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 (visible abyss calls), 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:pg8128:27:178
# text = The visible abyss calls to that abyss invisible of elder being whose flood-flow made the ghosts of us.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
7	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund |  | invisible flood flow |  |  |  | whose *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | the visible abyss calls | the ghosts of us |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ghost=Product |
| 3 | **ghost** |  |  | us |  |  |  |  | nom ghost «cognition 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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