Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2158

Then pick some of those kaba flowers that are growing near the edge of the water, spread them on the ground and roll yourself on them.

Who acts: you, kaba flowers · What happens: pick, grow, spread, roll · To what, where: some, edge, flowers, ground, yourself

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, kaba flowers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 pick	advmod
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 pick	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 flowers	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 flowers	det
6	kaba	kaba	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	compound
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 some	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 growing	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 growing	aux
10	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 flowers	acl:relcl
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 edge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 edge	det
13	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 growing	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 edge	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spread	punct
18	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 pick	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spread	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spread	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 roll	cc
24	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 pick	conj
25	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 roll	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 roll	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	some		then		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
2	grow	present · progressive	that kaba flowers		the edge of the water			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near edge=Location
3	spread	infinitive	you not said here	flowers = flower	the ground			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on ground=Destination
4	roll	infinitive	you not said here	yourself			on flowers = flower	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme on they=Trajectory

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:pg4018:2158.

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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