Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1257
But in spite of all their efforts the woman’s life was not to be saved.
What happens: not save · To what, where: life, efforts
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 saved | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 efforts | case |
| 3 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 in | fixed |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 in | fixed |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 efforts | det:predet |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 saved | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 woman | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saved | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 saved | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 saved | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 saved | aux:pass |
| 16 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not save | past · passive | the woman's life | LOVE's efforts | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:pg4018:1257.
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.
See the release 0.3.
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