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title: Thereafter waxed and waned the name of Alexander, and the power of R… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereafter waxed and waned the name of Alexander, and the power of Rome and the might of Islam;—nations arose and vanished;—cities grew and were not;—the children of another civilization, vaster than Romes, begirdled the earth with conquest, and founded far-off empires, and came at last to rule in t
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 112

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Thereafter waxed and waned the name of Alexander, and the power of Rome and the might of Islam;—nations arose and vanished;—cities grew and were not;—the children of another civilization, vaster than Romes, begirdled the earth with conquest, and founded far-off empires, and came at last to rule in the land of that pilgrim’s birth.

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**Who acts:** nations, cities · **What happens:** wax, wane, arise, vanish, grow, not be · **To what, where:** power, name, earth, last, land, Alexander

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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 (nations, cities), 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:pg8128:8:113
# text = Thereafter waxed and waned the name of Alexander, and the power of Rome and the might of Islam;—nations arose and vanished;—cities grew and were not;—the children of another civilization, vaster than Romes, begirdled the earth with conquest, and founded far-off empires, and came at last to rule in the land of that pilgrim’s birth.
1	Thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	waxed	wax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	waned	wane	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
39	civilization	civilization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	vaster	vast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	conj	_	_
42	than	than	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Romes	rome	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	begirdled	begirdl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
53	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	off	off	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
60	at	at	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	obl	_	_
62	to	to	PART	TO	_	63	mark	_	_
63	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	advcl	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
68	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	69	det	_	_
69	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	’s	's	PART	POS	_	69	case	_	_
71	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wax** | past |  | the power of Rome and the Islam |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wane** | past |  | the name of Alexander |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **arise** | past | nations |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **vanish** | past | nations *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | past | cities |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **be** | past | cities *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **begirdl** | past | cities *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  | with conquest | tree rules |
| 8 | **found** | participle | cities *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **come** | past | cities *not said here* |  |  | last |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 10 | **rule** | to-infinitive | cities *not said here* |  |  | the land of that pilgrim's birth |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **name** |  |  | Alexander |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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