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title: But in another moment it occurred to me that I could very well ventu… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But in another moment it occurred to me that I could very well venture to swim out to the lights. Who acts: opportunity, I. 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 93

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But in another moment it occurred to me that I could very well venture to swim out to the lights.

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**Who acts:** opportunity, I · **What happens:** occur, venture, swim out · **To what, where:** me, lights

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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 (opportunity, I), 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:pg8128:27:94
# text = But in another moment it occurred to me that I could very well venture to swim out to the lights.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	venture	venture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | past | opportunity |  | me |  | moment |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **venture** | could | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swim out** | to-infinitive | opportunity *not said here* |  |  | the lights |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to light=Destination |

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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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