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title: Truly the fear and the pain of the dead past speak to us in that dim… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Truly the fear and the pain of the dead past speak to us in that dim deep awe which the roar of the sea awakens. Who acts: roar, sea. 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 179

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Truly the fear and the pain of the dead past speak to us in that dim deep awe which the roar of the sea awakens.

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**Who acts:** roar, sea · **What happens:** awaken, pain, roar · **To what, where:** dim deep awe, fear, dead past speak

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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 (roar, sea), 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:pg8128:27:180
# text = Truly the fear and the pain of the dead past speak to us in that dim deep awe which the roar of the sea awakens.
1	Truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	speak	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	awakens	awaken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | present | the roar of the sea | dim deep awe  that |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme |
| 3 | **pain** |  |  | the dead past speak to us in dim deep awe  that |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **roar** |  | the sea |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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