Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1789

Now please give me the ashes of the mortar, as I wish to keep them in remembrance of my dog.” The neighbor consented at once, and the old man carried home a basket full of ashes.

Who acts: you, I, neighbor, old man · What happens: give, wish, keep, consent, carry, remember · To what, where: ashes, me, remembrance, basket, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, I, neighbor, old man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 give	advmod
2	please	please	INTJ	_	3 give	discourse
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ashes	det
6	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mortar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mortar	det
9	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ashes	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 wish	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wish	nsubj
13	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 give	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wish	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keep	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 remembrance	case
18	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keep	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 dog	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dog	nmod:poss
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remembrance	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
24	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 neighbor	det
25	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 consented	nsubj
26	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	parataxis
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 once	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 consented	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 carried	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 carried	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carried	nsubj
34	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 consented	conj
35	home	home	ADV	_	34 carried	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 basket	det
37	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carried	obj
38	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 basket	amod
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 ashes	case
40	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 full	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	the ashes of the mortar	me		now		tree rules
2	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	ashes = ash		remembrance of my dog			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in remembrance=Location
4	consent in a quote	past	the neighbor						vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	carry in a quote	past	the old man	a basket				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
6	remember			my dog					nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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:pg4018:1789.

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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