In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 96

However poorly the upper classes of such a people might compare with those of other nations, we could scarcely doubt that its lower classes were morally and otherwise in advance of our own lower classes.

Who acts: upper classes, we, lower classes, own lower classes · What happens: compare, doubt, be, advance · To what, where: advance

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (upper classes, we, lower classes, own lower classes), 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	However	however	ADV	_	2 poorly	advmod
2	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	11 compare	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 classes	det
4	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 classes	amod
5	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 compare	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 people	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 people	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 classes	nmod
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 compare	aux
11	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 those	case
13	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 compare	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 nations	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nations	amod
16	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 those	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 doubt	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 doubt	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 doubt	aux
20	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	21 doubt	advmod
21	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 compare	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 morally	mark
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 classes	nmod:poss
24	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 classes	amod
25	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 morally	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 morally	cop
27	morally	morally	ADV	_	21 doubt	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 otherwise	cc
29	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	27 morally	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 advance	case
31	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 doubt	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 classes	case
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 classes	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 classes	amod
35	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 classes	amod
36	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 advance	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 compare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	compare	might	the upper classes of such people		with those of other nations; poorly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient
2	doubt	could	we	advance of our own lower classes	scarcely property	vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	utterance's lower classes		morally property	tree rules
4	advance		our own lower classes			nom advance «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 96

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 96