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title: Every night at the Hour of the Ox, the hands never failed to torture… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: Every night at the Hour of the Ox, the hands never failed to torture her, during more than seventeen years,—according to the testimony of those persons to whom she last told her story, when she stopped for one evening at the house of Noguchi Dengozayémon, in the village of Tanaka in the district of 
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# In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 125

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Every night at the Hour of the Ox, the hands never failed to torture her, during more than seventeen years,—according to the testimony of those persons to whom she last told her story, when she stopped for one evening at the house of Noguchi Dengozayémon, in the village of Tanaka in the district of Kawachi in the province of Shimotsuké.

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**Who acts:** hands, dead, persons · **What happens:** not fail, torture, accord, tell, stop, testify · **To what, where:** dead, story, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, dead, persons), 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:pg8128:26:125
# text = Every night at the Hour of the Ox, the hands never failed to torture her, during more than seventeen years,—according to the testimony of those persons to whom she last told her story, when she stopped for one evening at the house of Noguchi Dengozayémon, in the village of Tanaka in the district of Kawachi in the province of Shimotsuké.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	torture	torture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	during	during	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	21	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	case	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	testimony	testimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nmod	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	last	last	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	parataxis	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Noguchi	Noguchi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	Dengozayémon	Dengozayémon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Tanaka	Tanaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	Kawachi	Kawachi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	Shimotsuké	Shimotsuké	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fail** | past | the hands |  |  |  | night | accord the testimony of that persons to the testimony of that persons to the testimony | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **torture** | to-infinitive | the hands *not said here* | dead |  |  | year |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | dead | dead's story |  |  |  | last *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 5 | **stop** | past | dead |  |  | the house of Noguchi | evening | in the village of Tanaka in the district of Kawachi in the province of Shimotsuké | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
| 6 | **testify** |  | that persons to the testimony of that persons to the testimony of that persons |  |  |  |  |  | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: of=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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