Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 893
Do you think that you would ever have the patience or the endurance to live a hermit’s life?” “In answer to your prayer, however, I will help you in another way.
Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: think, have, live, help, pray · To what, where: patience, life, you, answer · 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, your), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 have | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 patience | det |
| 10 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 endurance | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 endurance | det |
| 13 | endurance | endurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 patience | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 patience | acl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hermit | det |
| 17 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 hermit | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 help | punct |
| 23 | In | in | ADP | _ | 24 answer | case |
| 24 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 help | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 prayer | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 27 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 answer | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 help | punct |
| 29 | however | however | ADV | _ | 33 help | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 however | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 help | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 help | aux |
| 33 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | parataxis |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 help | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 way | case |
| 36 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 way | det |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 help | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | would | you | the patience or the endurance | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | |||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | you not said here | a hermit's life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 4 | help | future | I | you | answer to your prayer | in another way; however property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||
| 5 | pray | your | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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:pg4018:893.
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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