Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2115
Crocodile, you live in the sea and I live on this island, and we do not often meet, so I know very little about you.
Who acts: you, I, we · What happens: live, not meet, know · To what, where: sea, island, little
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, we), 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 | Crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Crocodile | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 live | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 live | nsubj |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 island | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 live | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 meet | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 meet | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 meet | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 meet | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 meet | advmod |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 meet | advmod |
| 20 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 live | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 know | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 know | nsubj |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | parataxis |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 little | advmod |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 know | obj |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 little | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | you | the sea | Crocodile vocative | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | |||
| 2 | live | present | I | this island | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | ||||
| 3 | not meet | present · do-support | we | often property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | know | present | I | little | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus |
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:pg4018:2115.
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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