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title: The combination, without the agony-tones, would prove a discord unen… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The combination, without the agony-tones, would prove a discord unendurable to ears divine. Who acts: combination. 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 191

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The combination, without the agony-tones, would prove a discord unendurable to ears divine.

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**Who acts:** combination · **What happens:** prove · **To what, where:** discord

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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 (combination), 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:pg8128:27:192
# text = The combination, without the agony-tones, would prove a discord unendurable to ears divine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	combination	combination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	discord	discord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	unendurable	unendurable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | would | the combination and the agony tones | a discord |  |  |  | unendurable *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discord=Theme |

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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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