In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 56

The holiday attire then worn by samurai youths was scarcely less brilliant than that of young girls; and the upper dress of this handsome stranger had seemed wonderfully beautiful to the enamoured maiden.

Who acts: holiday attire, upper dress · What happens: wear, be, have, seem, enamour · To what, where: holiday attire

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (holiday attire, upper dress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 attire	det
2	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attire	compound
3	attire	attire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brilliant	nsubj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 worn	advmod
5	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 attire	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 youths	case
7	samurai	samurai	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 youths	compound
8	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worn	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brilliant	cop
10	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	11 less	advmod
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 brilliant	advmod
12	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 brilliant	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 girls	case
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 girls	amod
17	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 that	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dress	det
21	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dress	amod
22	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 stranger	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 stranger	det
25	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stranger	amod
26	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dress	nmod
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brilliant	parataxis
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	ccomp
29	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	30 beautiful	advmod
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seemed	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 maiden	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 maiden	det
33	enamoured	enamour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 maiden	amod
34	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beautiful	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 brilliant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wear	participle		the holiday attire not said here	then	by samurai youths	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the holiday attire			than that of young girls; brilliant, less property	tree rules
3	have	past	the upper dress of this handsome stranger				tree rules
4	seem	past	the upper dress of this handsome stranger not said here			beautiful property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	enamour	participle					tree rules

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.

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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The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 56