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title: The holiday attire then worn by samurai youths was scarcely less bri… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Open
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# In Ghostly Japan, Opening, sentence 56

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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.

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:1:56
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	samurai	samurai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
28	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
29	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	enamoured	enamour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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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