Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2774
The general of the front forces must be I!” He looked back and saw Eiko his comrade, riding on a white horse, in the act of unsheathing a large sword to draw upon him.
Who acts: general, King, act · What happens: be, look back, see, ride, unsheathe, draw · To what, where: I, Eiko, act, large sword · 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 (general, King, act), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 general | det |
| 2 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 I | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 forces | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forces | det |
| 5 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 forces | amod |
| 6 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 general | nmod |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 I | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 I | cop |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | parataxis |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 I | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 I | punct |
| 12 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 looked | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looked | conj |
| 17 | Eiko | Eiko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 19 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Eiko | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 riding | punct |
| 21 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 saw | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 horse | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 horse | det |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 horse | amod |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 riding | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 act | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 act | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 act | det |
| 29 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 riding | obl |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 unsheathing | mark |
| 31 | unsheathing | unsheathe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 act | acl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 sword | det |
| 33 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sword | amod |
| 34 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 unsheathing | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 draw | mark |
| 36 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 unsheathing | advcl |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 draw | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | the general of the front forces | I | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look back in a quote | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | King not said here | Eiko | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eiko=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ride in a quote | gerund | King not said here | the act | on a white horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | unsheathe in a quote | gerund | the act not said here | a large sword | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | draw in a quote | to-infinitive | the act not said here | upon King | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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:pg4018:2774.
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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