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title: Small wonder if she howl at the moon that shines upon such a world! — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Small wonder if she howl at the moon that shines upon such a world! Who acts: faith, moon. 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 85

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Small wonder if she howl at the moon that shines upon such a world!

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**Who acts:** faith, moon · **What happens:** howl, shine · **To what, where:** Small wonder, world

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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 (faith, moon), 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:pg8128:9:85
# text = Small wonder if she howl at the moon that shines upon such a world!
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	howl	howl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **howl** | present | faith | Small wonder *not said here* |  |  |  | at the moon | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent wonder=Theme at moon=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shine** | present | the moon |  |  | such world |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon world=Location |

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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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