--- title: There are tones that call up all ghosts of youth and joy and tendern… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: There are tones that call up all ghosts of youth and joy and tenderness;—there are tones that evoke all phantom pain of perished passion;—there are tones that resurrect all dead sensations of majesty and might and glory,—all expired exultations,—all forgotten magnanimities. Who acts: tones. A senten --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/183/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [In Ghostly Japan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/) / [Story of a Tengu\[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/) / 183 # In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 183 There are tones that call up all ghosts of youth and joy and tenderness;—there are tones that evoke all phantom pain of perished passion;—there are tones that resurrect all dead sensations of majesty and might and glory,—all expired exultations,—all forgotten magnanimities. **Who acts:** tones · **What happens:** be, call up, evoke, perish, resurrect, forget · **To what, where:** ghosts, phantom pain, dead sensations, youth, perished passion, majesty 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 (tones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8128:27:184 # text = There are tones that call up all ghosts of youth and joy and tenderness;—there are tones that evoke all phantom pain of perished passion;—there are tones that resurrect all dead sensations of majesty and might and glory,—all expired exultations,—all forgotten magnanimities. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 ghosts ghost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 tenderness tenderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 — - PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 evoke evoke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 23 phantom phantom ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 perished perish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 passion passion NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 — - PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 31 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 32 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 resurrect resurrect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 36 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 sensations sensation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 — - PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 48 det _ _ 47 expired expired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 exultations exultation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 — - PUNCT : _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 53 det _ _ 52 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 53 amod _ _ 53 magnanimities magnanimity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | tones | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call up** *speech: assert* | present | tones | all ghosts of youth and joy and tenderness | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ghost=Recipient | | 3 | **does** | present | tones | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **evoke** | present | tones | all phantom pain of perished passion | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **perish** | participle | | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **does** | present | tones and all expired exultations and all forgotten magnanimities | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **resurrect** | present | tones and all expired exultations and all forgotten magnanimities | all dead sensations of majesty | | | | glory *conj* | tree rules | | 8 | **forget** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **ghost** | | | youth and joy and tenderness | | | | | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 10 | **pain** | | | perished passion | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient | | 11 | **sense** | | | majesty | | | | | nom sensation «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/182/) - next →: [sentence 184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/184/) - ↑ back to [Story of a Tengu\[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/)