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title: But there are sounds that move us much more profoundly than the voic… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But there are sounds that move us much more profoundly than the voice of the sea can do, and in stranger ways,—sounds that also make us serious at times, and very serious,—sounds of music. Who acts: sounds, voice. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its depe
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 180

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But there are sounds that move us much more profoundly than the voice of the sea can do, and in stranger ways,—sounds that also make us serious at times, and very serious,—sounds of music.

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**Who acts:** sounds, voice · **What happens:** be, move, do, make · **To what, where:** us, stranger ways, sounds

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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 (sounds, voice), 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:pg8128:27:181
# text = But there are sounds that move us much more profoundly than the voice of the sea can do, and in stranger ways,—sounds that also make us serious at times, and very serious,—sounds of music.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	profoundly	profoundly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	stranger	strange	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | sounds |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present | sounds | us |  | stranger ways and sounds and sounds of music |  | profoundly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme we=Result |
| 3 | **do** | can | the voice of the sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present |  | sounds and sounds of music |  |  | time | us *obj*; serious *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset that=Beneficiary we=Product |

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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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