--- title: Now please give me the ashes of the mortar, as I wish to keep them i… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: Now please give me the ashes of the mortar, as I wish to keep them in remembrance of my dog.” The neighbor consented at once, and the old man carried home a basket full of ashes. Who acts: you, I, neighbor, old man. 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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 (you, I, neighbor, old man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:1789 # text = Now please give me the ashes of the mortar, as I wish to keep them in remembrance of my dog.” The neighbor consented at once, and the old man carried home a basket full of ashes. # 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 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 please please INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 3 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 remembrance remembrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 24 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 neighbor neighbor NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 consented consent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 home home ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ashes of the mortar | me | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **wish** | present | I | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | ashes *= ash* | | remembrance of my dog | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in remembrance=Location | | 4 | **consent** *in a quote* | past | the neighbor | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **carry** *in a quote* | past | the old man | a basket | | | | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | | 6 | **remember** | | | my dog | | | | | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. 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