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title: If you leave me all the cakes you have in your bag you may go; other… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics
description: If you leave me all the cakes you have in your bag you may go; otherwise I will bite you till I kill you!” Momotaro only laughed scornfully: “What is that you are saying? Who acts: you, I, Momotaro, that. A sentence of «Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki», a book of tales from Project Guten
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# Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2447

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If you leave me all the cakes you have in your bag you may go; otherwise I will bite you till I kill you!” Momotaro only laughed scornfully: “What is that you are saying?

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**Who acts:** you, I, Momotaro, that · **What happens:** leave, have, go, bite, kill, laugh · **To what, where:** cakes, me, bag, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:2447
# text = If you leave me all the cakes you have in your bag you may go; otherwise I will bite you till I kill you!” Momotaro only laughed scornfully: “What is that you are saying?
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
28	Momotaro	Momotaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
31	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	parataxis	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | all cakes | me |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme cake=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | present | you | all cakes *not said here* |  | your bag |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bite** | future | I | you |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 5 | **kill** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **laugh** *in a quote* | past | Momotaro |  |  |  |  | scornfully *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:pg4018:2447`.

**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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