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title: By no ordinary methods could the hands of the dead woman be unfasten… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: By no ordinary methods could the hands of the dead woman be unfastened from the body of her victim;—they so clung that any effort to remove them brought blood. Who acts: hands, effort. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, wit
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 106

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By no ordinary methods could the hands of the dead woman be unfastened from the body of her victim;—they so clung that any effort to remove them brought blood.

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**Who acts:** hands, effort · **What happens:** unfasten, cling, remove, bring · **To what, where:** ordinary methods, hands

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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, effort), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:26:106
# text = By no ordinary methods could the hands of the dead woman be unfastened from the body of her victim;—they so clung that any effort to remove them brought blood.
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	methods	method	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unfasten** | could · passive |  | no ordinary methods |  |  |  | from the body of woman's victim; the hands of the dead woman *nsubj:pass* | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from body=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **cling** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remove** | to-infinitive | any effort | hands *= hand* |  |  |  | brought blood *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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