Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1666

I must also return the fishing hook to my brother and ask his forgiveness for having deprived him of it for so long.

Who acts: I · What happens: return, ask, deprive · To what, where: fishing hook, brother, forgiveness, hook

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 return	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 return	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 return	advmod
4	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hook	det
6	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hook	compound
7	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 return	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 brother	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 return	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ask	cc
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 return	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 forgiveness	nmod:poss
14	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	obj
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 deprived	mark
16	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 deprived	aux
17	deprived	deprive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 ask	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 deprived	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 deprived	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 long	case
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 deprived	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	return	must	I	the fishing hook	my brother		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hook=Theme to brother=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	I not said here	hook's forgiveness			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient
3	deprive	gerund · perfect	I not said here	hook		of forgiveness	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Source of it=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:pg4018:1666.

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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