Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2259
When he returned to the capital the King praised him for his brave deeds, and held a feast in the Palace in honor of his safe coming home and presented him with many rare gifts.
Who acts: son, King · What happens: return, praise, hold, present, honor, come · To what, where: son, feast, Palace, safe coming
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 (son, King), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 praised | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 capital | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 capital | det |
| 6 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 praised | nsubj |
| 9 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 praised | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 deeds | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deeds | amod |
| 14 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 praised | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 praised | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 feast | det |
| 19 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Palace | det |
| 22 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 honor | case |
| 24 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 coming | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 coming | nmod:poss |
| 27 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 coming | amod |
| 28 | coming | coming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 honor | nmod |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 coming | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 presented | cc |
| 31 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 praised | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 presented | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 gifts | case |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 gifts | amod |
| 35 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 gifts | amod |
| 36 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 presented | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | son | to the capital result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to capital=Result | ||||
| 2 | praise | past | the King | son | for son's brave deeds | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for deed=Attribute | |||
| 3 | hold | past | the King not said here | a feast | the Palace | in honor of son's safe coming | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent feast=Theme in palace=Location | ||
| 4 | present | past | the King not said here | son | with many rare gifts | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with gift=Theme | |||
| 5 | honor | son's safe coming | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | come | son | nom coming «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:pg4018:2259.
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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