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title: And at last he was able to see;—but therewith an icy trembling seize… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And at last he was able to see;—but therewith an icy trembling seized him; and the hair of his head stood up. Who acts: Tomozō, icy trembling, hair. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 12

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And at last he was able to see;—but therewith an icy trembling seized him; and the hair of his head stood up.

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**Who acts:** Tomozō, icy trembling, hair · **What happens:** be, see, seize, stand up · **To what, where:** last, Tomozō

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tomozō, icy trembling, hair), 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:pg8128:6:12
# text = And at last he was able to see;—but therewith an icy trembling seized him; and the hair of his head stood up.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Tomozō |  |  | last |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Tomozō *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **seize** | past | a icy trembling | Tomozō |  |  |  | therewith *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **stand up** | past | the hair of Tomozō's head |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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