In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 102
The cold hands had attached themselves in some unaccountable way to the breasts of the girl,—appeared to have grown into the quick flesh.
What happens: attach, appear, grow · To what, where: cold hands, unaccountable way, quick flesh
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3. 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.
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 | 3 hands | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hands | amod |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 attached | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attached | aux |
| 5 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 attached | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 way | det |
| 9 | unaccountable | unaccountable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attached | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 breasts | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 breasts | det |
| 13 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 way | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 girl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breasts | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 attached | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 appeared | punct |
| 19 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attached | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 grown | mark |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 grown | aux |
| 22 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 appeared | xcomp |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 flesh | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flesh | det |
| 25 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flesh | amod |
| 26 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grown | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | past · perfect · passive | the cold hands | some unaccountable way to the breasts of the girl | hands = hand obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | appear | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive · perfect | into the quick flesh result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into flesh=Result |
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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