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title: The tablets themselves keep the personal as well as the general reco… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The tablets themselves keep the personal as well as the general record,—since each player remembers the particular design upon his own set. Who acts: tablets, player. 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 201

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The tablets themselves keep the personal as well as the general record,—since each player remembers the particular design upon his own set.

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**Who acts:** tablets, player · **What happens:** keep, remember · **To what, where:** particular design

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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 (tablets, player), 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:pg8128:1:204
# text = The tablets themselves keep the personal as well as the general record,—since each player remembers the particular design upon his own set.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	remembers	remember	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | the tablets  tablets |  |  |  |  | as the general record; personal *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remember** | present | each player | the particular design |  |  |  | upon set's own set | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent design=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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