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title: I must also return the fishing hook to my brother and ask his forgiv… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics
description: I must also return the fishing hook to my brother and ask his forgiveness for having deprived him of it for so long. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 1666

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I must also return the fishing hook to my brother and ask his forgiveness for having deprived him of it for so long.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** return, ask, deprive · **To what, where:** fishing hook, brother, forgiveness, hook

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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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:1666
# text = I must also return the fishing hook to my brother and ask his forgiveness for having deprived him of it for so long.
# 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	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	aux	_	_
17	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | must | I | the fishing hook | my brother |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hook=Theme to brother=Destination |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | I *not said here* | hook's forgiveness |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient |
| 3 | **deprive** | gerund · perfect | I *not said here* | hook |  |  |  | of forgiveness | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Source of it=Theme |

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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.

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**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:pg4018:1666`.

**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/).

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