In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 106

By no ordinary methods could the hands of the dead woman be unfastened from the body of her victim;—they so clung that any effort to remove them brought blood.

Who acts: hands, effort · What happens: unfasten, cling, remove, bring · To what, where: ordinary methods, hands

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: who acts (hands, effort), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	13 unfastened	mark
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 methods	det
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 methods	amod
4	methods	method	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 unfastened	nsubj:pass
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 unfastened	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hands	det
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 unfastened	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 woman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hands	nmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 unfastened	aux:pass
13	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 clung	advcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 body	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 body	det
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 unfastened	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 victim	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 victim	nmod:poss
19	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 body	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 unfastened	punct
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 clung	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 clung	nsubj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 clung	advmod
24	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 remove	mark
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 effort	det
27	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remove	nsubj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 remove	mark
29	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 clung	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 remove	obj
31	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 blood	amod
32	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remove	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 clung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	unfasten	could · passive		no ordinary methods	from the body of woman's victim; the hands of the dead woman nsubj:pass	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from body=Co-Patient
2	cling	past	hands = hand			vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
3	remove	to-infinitive	any effort	hands = hand	brought blood obj	tree rules
4	bring	participle				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

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, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 106