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title: But they remained clinging to the breasts; and there they soon darke… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But they remained clinging to the breasts; and there they soon darkened and dried up,—like the hands of a person long dead. Who acts: hands. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 113

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But they remained clinging to the breasts; and there they soon darkened and dried up,—like the hands of a person long dead.

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** remain, cling, darken, dry up

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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), 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:pg8128:26:113
# text = But they remained clinging to the breasts; and there they soon darkened and dried up,—like the hands of a person long dead.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	clinging	cling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	darkened	darken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cling** | gerund | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the breasts | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to breast=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **darken** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  | there |  | like the hands of a person; soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **dry up** | participle | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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