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title: Strange facts crowd into memory as one contemplates those graven foo… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Strange facts crowd into memory as one contemplates those graven footprints,—footprints giant-seeming, yet less so than the human personality of which they remain the symbol. Who acts: Strange facts, one, footprints. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6,
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 108

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Strange facts crowd into memory as one contemplates those graven footprints,—footprints giant-seeming, yet less so than the human personality of which they remain the symbol.

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**Who acts:** Strange facts, one, footprints · **What happens:** crowd, contemplate, grave, remain · **To what, where:** memory, graven footprints, symbol

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strange facts, one, footprints), 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:pg8128:8:109
# text = Strange facts crowd into memory as one contemplates those graven footprints,—footprints giant-seeming, yet less so than the human personality of which they remain the symbol.
1	Strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crowd	crowd	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
8	contemplates	contemplate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	graven	grave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	footprints	footprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	footprints	footprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
15	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	seeming	seeming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	personality	personality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crowd** | present | Strange facts |  |  | memory |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into memory=Destination |
| 2 | **contemplate** | present | one | that graven footprints |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | present | footprints and giant seeming | the symbol |  |  | yet | than the human personality; which *obl*; Footprints *= footprint* *nsubj*; less *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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