In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 113

But they remained clinging to the breasts; and there they soon darkened and dried up,—like the hands of a person long dead.

Who acts: hands · What happens: remain, cling, darken, dry up

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 remained	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remained	nsubj
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	clinging	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 remained	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 breasts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 breasts	det
7	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clinging	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 darkened	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 there	cc
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 darkened	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 darkened	nsubj
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 darkened	advmod
13	darkened	darken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dried	cc
15	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 darkened	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 dried	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hands	punct
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 hands	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 hands	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hands	det
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 darkened	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 person	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 person	det
24	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hands	nmod
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dead	amod
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 person	amod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	remain	past	hands = hand			tree rules
2	cling	gerund	hands = hand not said here		to the breasts	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to breast=Co-Theme
3	darken	past	hands = hand	there	like the hands of a person; soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	dry up	participle	hands = hand not said here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 113

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 113