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title: Strange to think how vast the sum of joy and woe that must have been… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Strange to think how vast the sum of joy and woe that must have been experienced before the sense of music could evolve in the brain of man! Who acts: sum. 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 188

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Strange to think how vast the sum of joy and woe that must have been experienced before the sense of music could evolve in the brain of man!

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**Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** think, experience, evolve, sum, sense · **To what, where:** joy, brain, music · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sum), 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:pg8128:27:189
# text = Strange to think how vast the sum of joy and woe that must have been experienced before the sense of music could evolve in the brain of man!
1	Strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	evolve	evolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **experience** | must · perfect · passive |  | joy and woe |  |  | before the sense of music |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: that=Stimulus |
| 3 | **evolve** | could | the sum of joy and woe |  |  | the brain of man |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brain=Location |
| 5 | **sum** |  |  | joy and woe |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **sense** |  |  | music |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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