In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 180

But there are sounds that move us much more profoundly than the voice of the sea can do, and in stranger ways,—sounds that also make us serious at times, and very serious,—sounds of music.

Who acts: sounds, voice · What happens: be, move, do, make · To what, where: us, stranger ways, sounds

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Story of a Tengu[1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sounds, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 are	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 move	nsubj
6	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sounds	acl:relcl
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 move	obj
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 profoundly	advmod
10	profoundly	profoundly	ADV	_	6 move	advmod
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 do	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 voice	det
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 voice	nmod
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 profoundly	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ways	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ways	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ways	case
22	stranger	strange	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 ways	amod
23	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 move	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ways	punct
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 sounds	punct
26	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ways	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 make	obj
28	also	also	ADV	_	29 make	advmod
29	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sounds	acl:relcl
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 make	obj
31	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 make	xcomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 times	case
33	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 serious	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 serious	cc
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 serious	advmod
37	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sounds	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sounds	punct
39	—	-	PUNCT	_	40 sounds	punct
40	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sounds	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 music	case
42	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sounds	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	sounds		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	present	sounds	us	stranger ways and sounds and sounds of music		profoundly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme we=Result
3	do	can	the voice of the sea					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	present		sounds and sounds of music		time	us obj; serious property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset that=Beneficiary we=Product

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.

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 180

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Story of a Tengu[1], sentence 180