Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 858
His surname meant “Millionaire,” but although he was not so rich as all that, he was still very far removed from being poor.
Who acts: surname · What happens: mean, not be, remove, be · To what, where: Millionaire, surname
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 (surname), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 surname | nmod:poss |
| 2 | surname | surname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meant | nsubj |
| 3 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Millionaire | punct |
| 5 | Millionaire | millionaire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meant | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Millionaire | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Millionaire | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 removed | cc |
| 9 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 14 rich | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rich | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rich | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 rich | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 rich | advmod |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 removed | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 that | det |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 rich | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rich | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 removed | aux:pass |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 removed | advmod |
| 24 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 meant | conj |
| 25 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 27 poor | mark |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | VerbForm=Ger | 27 poor | cop |
| 27 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 removed | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | monkey's surname | Millionaire | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millionaire=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | surname | as that; rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remove | past · passive | surname | far property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | poor property | tree rules |
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:pg4018:858.
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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