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title: Consider the ground upon which we move, the soil out of which we cam… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Consider the ground upon which we move, the soil out of which we came;—think of the vanished billions that have risen from it and crumbled back into its latency to feed what becomes our food! Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 55

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Consider the ground upon which we move, the soil out of which we came;—think of the vanished billions that have risen from it and crumbled back into its latency to feed what becomes our food!

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** consider, move, come, think, vanish, rise · **To what, where:** ground, soil, vanished billions, latency, food

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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 (you, we), 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:pg8128:9:55
# text = Consider the ground upon which we move, the soil out of which we came;—think of the vanished billions that have risen from it and crumbled back into its latency to feed what becomes our food!
1	Consider	consider	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	billions	billion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	crumbled	crumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	latency	latency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
36	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	37	nsubj	_	_
37	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
38	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ground=Attribute |
| 2 | **move** | present |  | the soil |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; we *nsubj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent soil=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | we |  |  | the soil |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out which=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the vanished billions | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **vanish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **rise** | present · perfect · passive |  | the vanished billions |  | soil |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent from it=Initial\_State |
| 7 | **crumble back** | past |  |  |  |  |  | into soil's latency *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into latency=Result |
| 8 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **become** | present |  | our food |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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