Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1652
Ryn Jin now desired to punish the TAI, but the Happy Hunter begged him not to do so; since his lost hook was thus happily recovered he did not wish to make more trouble for the poor TAI.
Who acts: Ryn, Happy Hunter, Hunter · What happens: desire, punish, beg, not do, recover, not wish · To what, where: TAI, Ryn, lost hook, more trouble
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 (Ryn, Happy Hunter, Hunter), 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 | Ryn | Ryn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 desired | nsubj |
| 2 | Jin | Jin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ryn | flat |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 desired | advmod |
| 4 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 punish | mark |
| 6 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 desired | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 TAI | det |
| 8 | TAI | TAI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 punish | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 begged | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 begged | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Hunter | det |
| 12 | Happy | Happy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hunter | compound |
| 13 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 begged | nsubj |
| 14 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 desired | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 begged | obj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 do | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 begged | xcomp |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 do | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 wish | punct |
| 21 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 28 recovered | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hook | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lost | lost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hook | amod |
| 24 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 recovered | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 recovered | aux:pass |
| 26 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 28 recovered | advmod |
| 27 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 28 recovered | advmod |
| 28 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 wish | advcl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 wish | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 wish | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 wish | advmod |
| 32 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 begged | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 make | mark |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wish | xcomp |
| 35 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 trouble | amod |
| 36 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 make | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 TAI | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 TAI | det |
| 39 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 TAI | amod |
| 40 | TAI | TAI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 trouble | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | Ryn | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | punish not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ryn not said here | the TAI | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tai=Patient | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | the Happy Hunter | Ryn | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Happy Hunter not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | recover | past · passive | Ryn's lost hook | happily, thus property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not wish | past · do-support | Hunter | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hunter not said here | more trouble | for the poor TAI | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trouble=Product for tai=Beneficiary |
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:pg4018:1652.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/1652/