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title: Accordingly we have a total of thirteen packages to start with; but… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly we have a total of thirteen packages to start with; but three are to be used in the preliminary sampling, or “experimenting”—as the Japanese term it,—after the following manner. Who acts: we. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 182

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Accordingly we have a total of thirteen packages to start with; but three are to be used in the preliminary sampling, or “experimenting”—as the Japanese term it,—after the following manner.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** have, start, use, experiment, follow · **To what, where:** total, three, preliminary sampling

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg8128:1:185
# text = Accordingly we have a total of thirteen packages to start with; but three are to be used in the preliminary sampling, or “experimenting”—as the Japanese term it,—after the following manner.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	total	total	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	packages	package	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	preliminary	preliminary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	sampling	sampling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	experimenting	experiment	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	after	after	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	amod	_	_
39	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | we | a total of thirteen packages |  |  |  | the Japanese term  total and the following manner *parataxis*; accordingly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent total=Patient |
| 2 | **start** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **use** | present · passive |  | three |  | the preliminary sampling |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **experiment** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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