Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1396

He had apparently lost his way, and as it was late he met no one who could show him the road or warn him of the haunted spot.

Who acts: child, way, one · What happens: lose, be, meet, show, warn, haunt · To what, where: way, one, road, child

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 (child, way, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 lost	advmod
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 met	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 met	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 late	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 late	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 late	cop
12	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 met	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 met	nsubj
14	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 met	obj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 show	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 show	aux
19	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 one	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 show	iobj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 road	det
22	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 show	obj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 warn	cc
24	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 show	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 warn	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 spot	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 spot	det
28	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 spot	amod
29	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 warn	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	child	child's way		apparently property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
2	is	past	way			late property	tree rules
3	meet	past	child	no one			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent
4	show	could	no one	the road	child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient road=Topic
5	warn speech: warn	infinitive	no one not said here		child	of the haunted spot	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of spot=Topic
6	haunt	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:pg4018:1396.

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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