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Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2216

They were talking of the news which had recently been carried to them, that the King’s son had entered their country with a large army determined to exterminate their band.

Who acts: flowers, son · What happens: talk, carry, enter, determine, exterminate · To what, where: news, flowers, country, large army, band

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 (flowers, son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjauxcasedetoblnsubj:passauxadvmodaux:passacl:relclcaseoblpunctmarkdetnmod:posscasensubjauxaclnmod:possobjcasedetamodoblaclmarkxcompnmod:possobjpunctrootTheyPRONwereAUXtalkingVERBofADPtheDETnewsNOUNwhichPRONhadAUXrecentlyADVbeenAUXcarriedVERBtoADPthemPRON,PUNCTthatSCONJtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTsonNOUNhadAUXenteredVERBtheirPRONcountryNOUNwithADPaDETlargeADJarmyNOUNdeterminedVERBtoPARTexterminateVERBtheirPRONbandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 talkingnsubj
2werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 talkingaux
3talkingtalkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
4ofofADP_6 newscase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 newsdet
6newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing3 talkingobl
7whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel11 carriednsubj:pass
8hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 carriedaux
9recentlyrecentlyADV_11 carriedadvmod
10beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part11 carriedaux:pass
11carriedcarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 newsacl:relcl
12totoADP_13 themcase
13themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 carriedobl
14,,PUNCT_21 enteredpunct
15thatthatSCONJ_21 enteredmark
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Kingdet
17KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing19 sonnmod:poss
18’s'sPART_17 Kingcase
19sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing21 enterednsubj
20hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 enteredaux
21enteredenterVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part6 newsacl
22theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 countrynmod:poss
23countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing21 enteredobj
24withwithADP_27 armycase
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 armydet
26largelargeADJDegree=Pos27 armyamod
27armyarmyNOUNNumber=Sing21 enteredobl
28determineddetermineVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass27 armyacl
29totoPART_30 exterminatemark
30exterminateexterminateVERBVerbForm=Inf28 determinedxcomp
31theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 bandnmod:poss
32bandbandNOUNNumber=Sing30 exterminateobj
33..PUNCT_3 talkingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1talkpast · progressiveflowers = flowerof the newsvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2carrypast · perfect · passivethe newsflowers = flowerrecently propertyvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to they=Destination
3enterpast · perfectthe King's sonflowers's countrywith a large armyvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Destination
4determineparticiplea large army not said herevn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5exterminateto-infinitiveflowers's bandvn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=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:pg4018:2216.

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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