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title: After these tablet-sets have been distributed, a box called the “tab… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: After these tablet-sets have been distributed, a box called the “tablet-box” is placed before the first player; and all is ready for the real game. Who acts: box, all. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 194

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After these tablet-sets have been distributed, a box called the “tablet-box” is placed before the first player; and all is ready for the real game.

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**Who acts:** box, all · **What happens:** distribute, call, place, be · **To what, where:** tablet sets, tablet box, box, first player · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (box, all), 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:pg8128:1:197
# text = After these tablet-sets have been distributed, a box called the “tablet-box” is placed before the first player; and all is ready for the real game.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	sets	set	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	distributed	distribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distribute** | present · perfect · passive |  | this tablet sets |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a box *not said here* | the tablet box |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **place** | present · passive |  | a box |  | the first player |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before player=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | present | all |  |  |  |  | for the real game; ready *property* | tree rules |

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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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