In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 131

And Shinzaburō became more and more attached to the girl; and the twain were fettered, each to each, by that bond of illusion which is stronger than bands of iron.

Who acts: Shinzaburō, each, bond · What happens: become, attach, fetter, be, bond · To what, where: twain, illusion

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., 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 (Shinzaburō, each, bond), 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	_	3 became	cc
2	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 became	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 attached	cc
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 attached	advmod
7	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 became	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 girl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attached	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fettered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fettered	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 twain	det
14	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fettered	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fettered	aux:pass
16	fettered	fetter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 became	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 each	punct
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 fettered	obl:agent
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 each	case
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 each	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bond	punct
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 bond	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 bond	det
24	bond	bond	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stronger	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 illusion	case
26	illusion	illusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bond	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 stronger	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 stronger	cop
29	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 fettered	parataxis
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 bands	case
31	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stronger	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 iron	case
33	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bands	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	Shinzaburō			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	attach	participle	Shinzaburō not said here		to the girl	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	fetter	past · passive	each to each	the twain		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	is	present	that bond of illusion		than bands of iron; which nsubj; strong property	tree rules
5	bond			illusion		nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: of=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, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 131

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 131