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title: Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to unimaginable depth th… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to unimaginable depth the mystery of the past within us. Who acts: Great music, psychical storm. 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 181

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Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to unimaginable depth the mystery of the past within us.

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**Who acts:** Great music, psychical storm · **What happens:** be, agitate · **To what, where:** psychical storm, mystery

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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 (Great music, psychical storm), 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:pg8128:27:182
# text = Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to unimaginable depth the mystery of the past within us.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	psychical	psychical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	agitating	agitate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	unimaginable	unimaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Great music | a psychical storm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **agitate** | gerund | a psychical storm *not said here* | the mystery of the past |  |  |  | to unimaginable depth; within us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mystery=Experiencer |

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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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