--- title: In his dire extremity he remembered the gifts his aunt had given him… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: In his dire extremity he remembered the gifts his aunt had given him when they parted, and it seemed to him as if she must, with prophetic foresight, have divined this hour of need. Who acts: son, aunt, gifts. 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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 (son, aunt, gifts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:2292 # text = In his dire extremity he remembered the gifts his aunt had given him when they parted, and it seemed to him as if she must, with prophetic foresight, have divined this hour of need. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 dire dire ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 extremity extremity NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 parted part VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 expl _ _ 20 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 prophetic prophetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 foresight foresight NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux _ _ 33 divined divine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 34 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 need need NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | past | son | the gifts | | son's dire extremity | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | | 2 | **give** | past · perfect | son's aunt | the gifts *not said here* | son | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **part** | past | gifts *= gift* | | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **seem** | past | son *not said here* | extremity | son | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **divine** | must · perfect | aunt | | | | hour | with prophetic foresight | tree rules | 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:pg4018:2292`. **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…, 2281](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/2281/) - next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora…, 2417](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/2417/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/)