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title: I here offer the translation of such a record: it will serve to expl… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: I here offer the translation of such a record: it will serve to explain, almost at a glance, all the complications of the game. Who acts: I, translation, record. 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 204

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I here offer the translation of such a record: it will serve to explain, almost at a glance, all the complications of the game.

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**Who acts:** I, translation, record · **What happens:** offer, serve, explain, translate, complicate · **To what, where:** translation, glance, game

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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 (I, translation, record), 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:pg8128:1:207
# text = I here offer the translation of such a record: it will serve to explain, almost at a glance, all the complications of the game.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	complications	complication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | present | I | the translation of such record |  | here |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent translation=Theme |
| 2 | **serve** | future | translation |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | translation *not said here* |  |  | a glance and all complications of the game |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **translate** |  | such record |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **complicate** |  |  | the game |  |  |  |  | nom complication «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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