Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2447

If you leave me all the cakes you have in your bag you may go; otherwise I will bite you till I kill you!” Momotaro only laughed scornfully: “What is that you are saying?

Who acts: you, I, Momotaro, that · What happens: leave, have, go, bite, kill, laugh · To what, where: cakes, me, bag, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, Momotaro, that), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 leave	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
3	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 go	advcl
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 leave	iobj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cakes	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cakes	det
7	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cakes	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 bag	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bag	nmod:poss
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 bite	punct
17	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	20 bite	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bite	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 bite	aux
20	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	parataxis
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 bite	obj
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 kill	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 kill	nsubj
24	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bite	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 kill	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
28	Momotaro	Momotaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 laughed	nsubj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 laughed	advmod
30	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 go	parataxis
31	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	_	30 laughed	advmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 What	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 What	punct
34	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 laughed	parataxis
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 What	cop
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 What	nsubj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 saying	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 saying	aux
39	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 that	acl:relcl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave a condition, not said to happen	present	you	all cakes	me			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme cake=Attribute
2	have	present	you	all cakes not said here		your bag		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
3	go	may	you					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bite	future	I	you			otherwise property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	kill	present	I	you				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	laugh in a quote	past	Momotaro				scornfully property	tree rules
7	is a	present	that					tree rules
8	say speech: assert	present · progressive	you					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:pg4018:2447.

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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