Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1783

He found him sitting by a big fire made of pieces of wood.

Who acts: man, hook · What happens: find, sit, make · To what, where: hook, big fire

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 (man, hook), 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	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fire	amod
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fire	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 wood	case
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pieces	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	man	hook		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	sit	gerund	hook not said here		by a big fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	make	participle		a big fire not said here	of pieces of wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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:pg4018:1783.

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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