In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 53

In this case the wind blows very cold indeed,—into the mother’s very heart;—for it comes through the little holes that were made by the fingers of her dead child.

Who acts: wind, heart, fingers · What happens: blow, come, make · To what, where: cold, little holes

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, heart, fingers), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 case	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 case	det
3	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blows	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blows	nsubj
6	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 cold	advmod
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blows	obj
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 cold	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blows	punct
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 heart	punct
12	into	into	ADP	_	17 heart	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heart	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 mother	case
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 heart	advmod
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blows	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 comes	punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 comes	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 comes	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 comes	nsubj
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blows	conj
23	through	through	ADP	_	26 holes	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 holes	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 holes	amod
26	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 comes	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 made	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 made	aux:pass
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 holes	acl:relcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 fingers	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fingers	det
32	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 made	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 child	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 child	nmod:poss
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 child	amod
36	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fingers	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow	present	the wind	cold		in this case; the mother's heart advcl	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent cold=Patient in case=Topic
2	come	present	heart		the little holes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through hole=Initial_Location
3	make	past · passive	the fingers of Shōji's dead child	the little holes			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 53

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 8, sentence 53