Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1859
The doctor was alarmed at Rin Jin’s evident displeasure, and excused his want of skill by saying that although he knew the right kind of medicine to give the invalid, it was impossible to find it in the sea.
Who acts: man, Rin · What happens: alarm, excuse, say, know, give, be · To what, where: doctor, evident displeasure, want, right kind, invalid, sea · 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 (man, Rin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 4 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 displeasure | case |
| 6 | Rin | Rin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 displeasure | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Jin | Jin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rin | flat |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Rin | case |
| 9 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 displeasure | amod |
| 10 | displeasure | displeasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alarmed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 excused | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 excused | cc |
| 13 | excused | excuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alarmed | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 want | nmod:poss |
| 15 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 excused | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 skill | case |
| 17 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 want | nmod |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 saying | mark |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 excused | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 impossible | mark |
| 21 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 23 knew | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 impossible | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 kind | det |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 kind | amod |
| 26 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knew | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 medicine | case |
| 28 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kind | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 give | mark |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 kind | acl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 invalid | det |
| 32 | invalid | invalid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 give | iobj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 impossible | punct |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 impossible | expl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 impossible | cop |
| 36 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 saying | ccomp |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 find | mark |
| 38 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 impossible | csubj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 find | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 sea | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sea | det |
| 42 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 find | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | the doctor | Rin's evident displeasure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | excuse | past | man's want of skill | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent want=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | know | past | man | the right kind of medicine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | man not said here | the right kind of medicine not said here | the invalid | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invalid=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | doctor | the sea | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 8 | displease | Rin | nom displeasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | want | man | skill | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent 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:pg4018:1859.
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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