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title: All the gladness and the grief of dead generations come back to haun… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: All the gladness and the grief of dead generations come back to haunt us in countless forms of harmony and of melody. Who acts: gladness. 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 193

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All the gladness and the grief of dead generations come back to haunt us in countless forms of harmony and of melody.

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**Who acts:** gladness · **What happens:** come back, haunt, form · **To what, where:** us, countless forms, harmony

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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 (gladness), 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:pg8128:27:194
# text = All the gladness and the grief of dead generations come back to haunt us in countless forms of harmony and of melody.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	haunt	haunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	harmony	harmony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | present | all gladness and the grief of dead generations |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **haunt** | to-infinitive | all gladness and the grief of dead generations *not said here* | us |  | countless forms of harmony and melody |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | harmony and melody |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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