--- title: However stupid I may be, I should never be able to curse any one who… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: However stupid I may be, I should never be able to curse any one who belonged to you, much less pray for the death of one you love. Who acts: I, one, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:1345 # text = However stupid I may be, I should never be able to curse any one who belonged to you, much less pray for the death of one you love. # source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18 1 However however ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 2 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 2 cop _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 8 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 curse curse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 much much ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 23 pray pray VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nmod _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | may | I | | | | | however, stupid *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | should | I | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **curse** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | any one | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 4 | **belong** | past | any one | | you | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pray** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | for the death of one; less *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for death=Theme | | 6 | **love** | present | you | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | 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:pg4018:1345`. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.3/). - ← previous: [Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora…, 1257](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/1257/) - next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora…, 1349](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/1349/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/)