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title: The indescribable antique queerness of everything gives you that wei… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The indescribable antique queerness of everything gives you that weird sensation of remoteness,—of the far away in time and place,—which makes one doubt the reality of the visible. Who acts: indescribable antique queerness. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1], wit
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# In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu\[1\], sentence 82

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The indescribable antique queerness of everything gives you that weird sensation of remoteness,—of the far away in time and place,—which makes one doubt the reality of the visible.

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**Who acts:** indescribable antique queerness · **What happens:** give, make, sense · **To what, where:** weird sensation, you, one doubt, remoteness

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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 (indescribable antique queerness), 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:pg8128:27:83
# text = The indescribable antique queerness of everything gives you that weird sensation of remoteness,—of the far away in time and place,—which makes one doubt the reality of the visible.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	indescribable	indescribable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	antique	antique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	queerness	queerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
7	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sensation	sensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	remoteness	remoteness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the indescribable antique queerness of everything | that weird sensation of remoteness | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sensation=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | one doubt |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; the reality of the visible *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset doubt=Product |
| 3 | **sense** |  |  | remoteness |  |  |  |  | nom sensation «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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