Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2417
Far away from here to the northeast of Japan there is an island in the sea.
Who acts: island · What happens: be · To what, where: sea
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 (island), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 is | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 here | case |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 away | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 northeast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 northeast | det |
| 7 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Japan | case |
| 9 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 northeast | nmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 island | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a island | the sea; there | to the northeast of Japan; away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
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:pg4018:2417.
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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