Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2761
There is an interesting story of how she mended a part of the broken heavens and one of the terrestrial pillars which upheld the sky, both of which were damaged during a rebellion raised by one of King Fuki’s subjects.
Who acts: interesting story, story, terrestrial pillars · What happens: be, mend, uphold, damage, raise · To what, where: part, sky, both, rebellion
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 (interesting story, story, terrestrial pillars), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 mended | mark |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 mended | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mended | nsubj |
| 9 | mended | mend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mended | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 heavens | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heavens | det |
| 14 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heavens | amod |
| 15 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 part | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 one | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 part | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pillars | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pillars | det |
| 20 | terrestrial | terrestrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pillars | amod |
| 21 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 upheld | nsubj |
| 23 | upheld | uphold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pillars | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sky | det |
| 25 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 upheld | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 damaged | punct |
| 27 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 damaged | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 both | nmod |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 damaged | aux:pass |
| 31 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 part | acl:relcl |
| 32 | during | during | ADP | _ | 34 rebellion | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 rebellion | det |
| 34 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 damaged | obl |
| 35 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 rebellion | acl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 one | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 raised | obl:agent |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 subjects | case |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 40 | Fuki | Fuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 King | flat |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 King | case |
| 42 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 one | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a interesting story | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mend | past | story | a part of the broken heavens | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | uphold | past | the terrestrial pillars | the sky | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | damage | past · passive | both | during a rebellion | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | raise | participle | a rebellion not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: 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:pg4018:2761.
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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