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title: Some notes in the long cry,—and the weirdest of them,—oddly resemble… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Some notes in the long cry,—and the weirdest of them,—oddly resemble those tones of the human voice that tell of agony and terror. Who acts: human voice. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 31

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Some notes in the long cry,—and the weirdest of them,—oddly resemble those tones of the human voice that tell of agony and terror.

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**Who acts:** human voice · **What happens:** resemble, tell, intonate · **To what, where:** tones, human voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (human voice), 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:pg8128:9:31
# text = Some notes in the long cry,—and the weirdest of them,—oddly resemble those tones of the human voice that tell of agony and terror.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	weirdest	weird	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	oddly	oddly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	resemble	resemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | infinitive |  | that tones of the human voice |  |  |  | oddly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the human voice |  |  |  |  | of agony and terror | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **intonate** |  |  | the human voice |  |  |  |  | nom tone «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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