Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2292

In his dire extremity he remembered the gifts his aunt had given him when they parted, and it seemed to him as if she must, with prophetic foresight, have divined this hour of need.

Who acts: son, aunt, gifts · What happens: remember, give, part, seem, divine · To what, where: gifts, dire extremity, son, extremity

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, aunt, gifts), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 extremity	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 extremity	nmod:poss
3	dire	dire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 extremity	amod
4	extremity	extremity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remembered	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 remembered	nsubj
6	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gifts	det
8	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 remembered	obj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 aunt	nmod:poss
10	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 gifts	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 given	iobj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 parted	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 parted	nsubj
16	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seemed	expl
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remembered	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seemed	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 divined	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 divined	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 divined	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 divined	aux
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 foresight	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 foresight	case
29	prophetic	prophetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 foresight	amod
30	foresight	foresight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 divined	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 foresight	punct
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 divined	aux
33	divined	divine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 seemed	advcl
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 hour	det
35	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 divined	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 need	case
37	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hour	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	son	the gifts		son's dire extremity			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
2	give	past · perfect	son's aunt	the gifts not said here	son				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	part	past	gifts = gift						vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	seem	past	son not said here	extremity	son				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	divine	must · perfect	aunt				hour	with prophetic foresight	tree rules

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:pg4018:2292.

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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