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title: And Shinzaburō became more and more attached to the girl; and the tw… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: And Shinzaburō became more and more attached to the girl; and the twain were fettered, each to each, by that bond of illusion which is stronger than bands of iron. Who acts: Shinzaburō, each, bond. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 3, with its dependenc
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 3, sentence 131

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And Shinzaburō became more and more attached to the girl; and the twain were fettered, each to each, by that bond of illusion which is stronger than bands of iron.

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**Who acts:** Shinzaburō, each, bond · **What happens:** become, attach, fetter, be, bond · **To what, where:** twain, illusion

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., 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 (Shinzaburō, each, bond), 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:pg8128:5:132
# text = And Shinzaburō became more and more attached to the girl; and the twain were fettered, each to each, by that bond of illusion which is stronger than bands of iron.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Shinzaburō	Shinzaburō	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	fettered	fetter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obl:agent	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	bond	bond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	illusion	illusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	parataxis	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Shinzaburō |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **attach** | participle | Shinzaburō *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the girl | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fetter** | past · passive | each to each | the twain |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | that bond of illusion |  |  |  |  | than bands of iron; which *nsubj*; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bond** |  |  | illusion |  |  |  |  | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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