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title: Pleasure and pain: they commingle always in great music; and therefo… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Pleasure and pain: they commingle always in great music; and therefore it is that music can move us more profoundly than the voice of ocean or than any other voice can do. Who acts: Substances, music, voice. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], with its dependency
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 186

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Pleasure and pain: they commingle always in great music; and therefore it is that music can move us more profoundly than the voice of ocean or than any other voice can do.

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**Who acts:** Substances, music, voice · **What happens:** commingle, be, move, do · **To what, where:** great music, music, us, Pleasure

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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 (Substances, music, 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:pg8128:27:187
# text = Pleasure and pain: they commingle always in great music; and therefore it is that music can move us more profoundly than the voice of ocean or than any other voice can do.
1	Pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	commingle	commingle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	profoundly	profoundly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commingle** | present | Substances *= substance* |  |  | great music |  | always *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | music | music |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | can | music | us |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme we=Result |
| 4 | **do** | can | the voice of ocean or any other voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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