In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 39

The lips of the dead have touched you!—the hands of the dead have caressed you!…

What happens: touch, caress · To what, where: lips, hands

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lips	det
2	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touched	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dead	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dead	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lips	nmod
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 touched	aux
7	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 touched	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 touched	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 caressed	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hands	det
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 caressed	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 dead	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dead	det
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hands	nmod
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 caressed	aux
17	caressed	caress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 touched	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 caressed	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 caressed	punct
20	…	.	PUNCT	_	7 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	present · perfect · passive		the lips of the dead				you obj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer you=Result
2	caress	present · perfect · passive		the hands of the dead				you obj	tree rules

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 4, sentence 39

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 4, sentence 39