--- title: Looking landward from the top of the structure, your gaze ranges ove… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics description: Looking landward from the top of the structure, your gaze ranges over the whole town,—a broad space of grey-tiled roofs and weather-worn grey timbers, with here and there a pine-grove marking the place of a temple-court. Who acts: gaze, pine grove, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gaze, pine grove, your), 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:pg8128:27:62 # text = Looking landward from the top of the structure, your gaze ranges over the whole town,—a broad space of grey-tiled roofs and weather-worn grey timbers, with here and there a pine-grove marking the place of a temple-court. 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 2 landward landward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 structure structure NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 gaze gaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 ranges range VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 over over ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 tiled tile VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 roofs roof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 31 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 timbers timber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 parataxis _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 35 expl _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 grove grove NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 42 marking mark VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 acl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 temple temple NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund | your gaze *not said here* | | | | | from the top of the structure; landward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from top=Theme | | 2 | **range** | present | your gaze | | | the whole town | | a broad space of tiled roofs and worn grey timbers *parataxis* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over town=Location | | 3 | **tile** | participle | | | | | | grey *compound* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wear** | participle | | | | | | weather *compound* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mark** | gerund | a pine grove *not said here* | the place of a temple court | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Destination | | 6 | **gaze** | | your | | | | | | nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/62/) - ↑ back to [Story of a Tengu\[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8128/27/)