In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 117

And nightly thereafter,—beginning always at the Hour of the Ox,[4]—they would clutch and compress and torture.

Who acts: hands · What happens: clutch, compress, torture

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 Hour	cc
2	nightly	nightly	ADV	_	3 thereafter	advmod
3	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	10 Hour	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Hour	punct
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 beginning	punct
6	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Hour	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 Hour	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 Hour	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Hour	det
10	Hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Ox	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ox	det
13	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Hour	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 4	punct
15	[	[	PUNCT	_	16 4	punct
16	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 Ox	appos
17	]	]	PUNCT	_	16 4	punct
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 clutch	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 clutch	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 clutch	aux
21	clutch	clutch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Hour	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 compress	cc
23	compress	compress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 clutch	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 torture	cc
25	torture	torture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 clutch	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Hour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	clutch	would	hands = hand	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	compress	infinitive	hands = hand not said here	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	torture	infinitive	hands = hand not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 117

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 117