In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 201
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 · What happens: keep, remember · To what, where: particular design
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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tablets | det |
| 2 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 tablets | nmod |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 personal | det |
| 6 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 keep | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 record | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 record | det |
| 11 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 record | amod |
| 12 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 record | punct |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 remembers | punct |
| 15 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 18 remembers | mark |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 player | det |
| 17 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remembers | nsubj |
| 18 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 design | det |
| 20 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 design | amod |
| 21 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remembers | obj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 set | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 set | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 set | amod |
| 25 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remembers | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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