In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 5, sentence 69
And the bones of the arms, and the bones of the hands, clung fast about his neck.
What happens: cling · To what, where: bones
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 5. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clung | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bones | det |
| 3 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 clung | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 arms | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arms | det |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bones | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bones | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bones | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bones | det |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 arms | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hands | det |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bones | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clung | punct |
| 15 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 clung | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 neck | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clung | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 clung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | participle · passive | the bones of the arms and the bones of the hands | about Tomozō's neck; fast property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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