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title: Seaward, over leagues of water, there is a grand view,—a jagged blue… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Seaward, over leagues of water, there is a grand view,—a jagged blue range of peaks crowding sharply into the horizon, like prodigious amethysts,—and beyond them, to the left, the glorious spectre of Fuji, towering enormously above everything. Who acts: grand view, peaks, jagged blue range. A senten
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 62

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Seaward, over leagues of water, there is a grand view,—a jagged blue range of peaks crowding sharply into the horizon, like prodigious amethysts,—and beyond them, to the left, the glorious spectre of Fuji, towering enormously above everything.

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**Who acts:** grand view, peaks, jagged blue range · **What happens:** be, crowd, tower · **To what, where:** horizon, everything

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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 (grand view, peaks, jagged blue range), 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:pg8128:27:63
# text = Seaward, over leagues of water, there is a grand view,—a jagged blue range of peaks crowding sharply into the horizon, like prodigious amethysts,—and beyond them, to the left, the glorious spectre of Fuji, towering enormously above everything.
1	Seaward	Seaward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	jagged	jagged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	crowding	crowd	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	amethysts	amethyst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	spectre	spectre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Fuji	Fuji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	towering	tower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
47	enormously	enormously	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	above	above	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | a grand view and a jagged blue range of peaks like prodigious amethysts beyond amethysts and the left and the glorious spectre of Fuji |  |  | there |  | Seaward *dep* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **crowd** | gerund | peaks *not said here* |  |  | the horizon |  | sharply *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into horizon=Destination |
| 3 | **tower** | gerund | a jagged blue range of peaks like prodigious amethysts beyond amethysts and the left and the glorious spectre of Fuji *not said here* |  |  | everything |  | enormously *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above everything=Location |

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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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