In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 125

Every night at the Hour of the Ox, the hands never failed to torture her, during more than seventeen years,—according to the testimony of those persons to whom she last told her story, when she stopped for one evening at the house of Noguchi Dengozayémon, in the village of Tanaka in the district of Kawachi in the province of Shimotsuké.

Who acts: hands, dead, persons · What happens: not fail, torture, accord, tell, stop, testify · To what, where: dead, story, house · Speech: someone speaks here

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, dead, persons), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 failed	obl:unmarked
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 Hour	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hour	det
5	Hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Ox	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Ox	det
8	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hour	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hands	det
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 failed	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 failed	advmod
13	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 torture	mark
15	torture	torture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 failed	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 torture	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 years	punct
18	during	during	ADP	_	22 years	case
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	21 seventeen	advmod
20	than	than	ADP	_	19 more	fixed
21	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 torture	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 testimony	punct
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 testimony	punct
25	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 testimony	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 according	fixed
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 testimony	det
28	testimony	testimony	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 failed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 persons	case
30	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 persons	det
31	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 testimony	nmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 whom	case
33	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 persons	nmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 told	nsubj
35	last	last	ADV	_	36 told	advmod
36	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 whom	acl:relcl
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 story	nmod:poss
38	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 told	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 stopped	punct
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 stopped	advmod
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 stopped	nsubj
42	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 story	parataxis
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 evening	case
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 evening	nummod
45	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stopped	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 house	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 house	det
48	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stopped	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Noguchi	case
50	Noguchi	Noguchi	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 house	nmod
51	Dengozayémon	Dengozayémon	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Noguchi	flat
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 village	punct
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 village	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 village	det
55	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stopped	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 Tanaka	case
57	Tanaka	Tanaka	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 village	nmod
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 district	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 district	det
60	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 village	nmod
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 Kawachi	case
62	Kawachi	Kawachi	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 district	nmod
63	in	in	ADP	_	65 province	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 province	det
65	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 district	nmod
66	of	of	ADP	_	67 Shimotsuké	case
67	Shimotsuké	Shimotsuké	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 province	nmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 failed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fail	past	the hands			night	accord the testimony of that persons to the testimony of that persons to the testimony	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	torture	to-infinitive	the hands not said here	dead		year		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	dead	dead's story			last property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
5	stop	past	dead		the house of Noguchi	evening	in the village of Tanaka in the district of Kawachi in the province of Shimotsuké	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location
6	testify		that persons to the testimony of that persons to the testimony of that persons					nom testimony «communication intransitive»: of=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 125

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In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 125