Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1345

However stupid I may be, I should never be able to curse any one who belonged to you, much less pray for the death of one you love.

Who acts: I, one, you · What happens: be, not be, curse, belong, pray, love · To what, where: one, you

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 (I, one, you), 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	However	however	ADV	_	2 stupid	advmod
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 able	advcl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 stupid	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 stupid	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 stupid	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stupid	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 able	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 able	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 able	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	cop
11	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 curse	mark
13	curse	curse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 able	xcomp
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 curse	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 belonged	nsubj
17	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 one	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 belonged	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pray	punct
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 less	advmod
22	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 pray	advmod
23	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 curse	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 death	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 death	det
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pray	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 one	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 death	nmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 love	nsubj
30	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 one	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	may	I			however, stupid property	tree rules
2	not is	should	I			able property	tree rules
3	curse	to-infinitive	I not said here	any one			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	belong	past	any one		you		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	pray	infinitive	I not said here			for the death of one; less property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for death=Theme
6	love	present	you				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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:pg4018:1345.

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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