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title: And nightly thereafter,—beginning always at the Hour of the Ox,[4]—t… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And nightly thereafter,—beginning always at the Hour of the Ox,[4]—they would clutch and compress and torture. 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 every clause.
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 117

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And nightly thereafter,—beginning always at the Hour of the Ox,\[4\]—they would clutch and compress and torture.

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** clutch, compress, torture

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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:pg8128:26:117
# text = And nightly thereafter,—beginning always at the Hour of the Ox,[4]—they would clutch and compress and torture.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	nightly	nightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	clutch	clutch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	compress	compress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	torture	torture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clutch** | would | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **compress** | infinitive | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **torture** | infinitive | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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