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title: According to this record the player who used the tablets decorated w… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: According to this record the player who used the tablets decorated with the design called “Young Pine,” made but two mistakes; while the holder of the “White-Lily” set made only one correct guess. Who acts: player, Lily set. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening, with its depen
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 205

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According to this record the player who used the tablets decorated with the design called “Young Pine,” made but two mistakes; while the holder of the “White-Lily” set made only one correct guess.

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**Who acts:** player, Lily set · **What happens:** accord, use, decorate, call, make · **To what, where:** tablets, design, holder, one correct guess · **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 (player, Lily set), 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:pg8128:1:208
# text = According to this record the player who used the tablets decorated with the design called “Young Pine,” made but two mistakes; while the holder of the “White-Lily” set made only one correct guess.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Pine	Pine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	holder	holder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
37	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
40	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	guess	guess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **use** | past | the player | the tablets |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Patient |
| 3 | **decorate** | participle |  | the tablets *not said here* |  |  |  | with the design | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with design=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | the design *not said here* |  |  |  | Young Pine *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | past | the player | the holder of the Lily set |  |  |  | accord this record; two mistakes *conj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **make** | participle | the Lily set *not said here* | one correct guess |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset guess=Product |

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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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