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Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1036

Princess Moonlight then sent word to the First Knight that she requested him to bring her the stone bowl which had belonged to Buddha in India.

Who acts: Princess Moonlight, Moonlight, stone bowl · What happens: send, request, bring, belong · To what, where: word, First Knight, man, stone bowl, Moonlight, Buddha

This is a sentence of «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess Moonlight, Moonlight, stone bowl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

compoundnsubjadvmodobjcasedetamodoblmarknsubjaclobjmarkxcompiobjdetcompoundobjnsubjauxacl:relclcaseoblcasenmodpunctrootPrincessPROPNMoonlightPROPNthenADVsentVERBwordNOUNtoADPtheDETFirstADJKnightNOUNthatSCONJshePRONrequestedVERBhimPRONtoPARTbringVERBherPRONtheDETstoneNOUNbowlNOUNwhichPRONhadAUXbelongedVERBtoADPBuddhaPROPNinADPIndiaPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing2 Moonlightcompound
2MoonlightMoonlightPROPNNumber=Sing4 sentnsubj
3thenthenADVPronType=Dem4 sentadvmod
4sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5wordwordNOUNNumber=Sing4 sentobj
6totoADP_9 Knightcase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Knightdet
8FirstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord9 Knightamod
9KnightknightNOUNNumber=Sing4 sentobl
10thatthatSCONJ_12 requestedmark
11sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 requestednsubj
12requestedrequestVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 wordacl
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 requestedobj
14totoPART_15 bringmark
15bringbringVERBVerbForm=Inf12 requestedxcomp
16hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 bringiobj
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 bowldet
18stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing19 bowlcompound
19bowlbowlNOUNNumber=Sing15 bringobj
20whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel22 belongednsubj
21hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 belongedaux
22belongedbelongVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part19 bowlacl:relcl
23totoADP_24 Buddhacase
24BuddhaBuddhaPROPNNumber=Sing22 belongedobl
25ininADP_26 Indiacase
26IndiaIndiaPROPNNumber=Sing24 Buddhanmod
27..PUNCT_4 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sendpastPrincess Moonlightwordthe First Knightthenvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to knight=Destination
2requestpastMoonlightmanvn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3bringto-infinitiveMoonlight not said herethe stone bowlMoonlightvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination bowl=Theme
4belongpast · perfectthe stone bowlBuddha in Indiavn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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: «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», Project Gutenberg book 4018 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg4018:1036.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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