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title: Guesses recorded by numbers on the tablet; correct being marked * — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Guesses recorded by numbers on the tablet; correct being marked * A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Record of a Kō-kwai., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Record of a Kō-kwai., sentence 4

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Guesses recorded by numbers on the tablet; correct being marked \*

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**What happens:** record, mark · **To what, where:** Guesses

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Record of a Kō-kwai.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg8128:2:4
# text = Guesses recorded by numbers on the tablet; correct being marked *
1	Guesses	guess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | participle |  | Guesses *not said here* |  |  |  | by numbers on the tablet | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mark** | gerund · passive |  | Guesses |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

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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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