--- title: The doctor was alarmed at Rin Jin’s evident displeasure, and excused… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: The doctor was alarmed at Rin Jin’s evident displeasure, and excused his want of skill by saying that although he knew the right kind of medicine to give the invalid, it was impossible to find it in the sea. Who acts: man, Rin. 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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 (man, Rin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:1859 # text = The doctor was alarmed at Rin Jin’s evident displeasure, and excused his want of skill by saying that although he knew the right kind of medicine to give the invalid, it was impossible to find it in the sea. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 alarmed alarm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 Rin Rin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 7 Jin Jin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 9 evident evident ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 displeasure displeasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 excused excuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 want want NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 advcl _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 21 although although SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 invalid invalid NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 iobj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 expl _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 csubj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **alarm** | past · passive | | the doctor | | Rin's evident displeasure | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **excuse** | past | | man's want of skill | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent want=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** | past | man | the right kind of medicine | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus | | 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the right kind of medicine *not said here* | the invalid | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invalid=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | impossible *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | | doctor | | the sea | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 8 | **displease** | | Rin | | | | | | nom displeasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **want** | | man | skill | | | | | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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