Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2622
Watanabe therefore had a box made of the strongest wood and banded with iron.
Who acts: Watanabe, box · What happens: have, make, band · To what, where: box
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 (Watanabe, box), 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 | Watanabe | Watanabe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 9 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 wood | amod |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 banded | cc |
| 12 | banded | band | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 made | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 iron | case |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 banded | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Watanabe | a box | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | participle | a box not said here | of the strongest wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | band | participle | a box not said here | with iron | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with iron=Co-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:pg4018:2622.
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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