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title: Watanabe therefore had a box made of the strongest wood and banded w… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics
description: Watanabe therefore had a box made of the strongest wood and banded with iron. Who acts: Watanabe, box. 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 2622

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Watanabe therefore had a box made of the strongest wood and banded with iron.

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**Who acts:** Watanabe, box · **What happens:** have, make, band · **To what, where:** box

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:2622
# text = Watanabe therefore had a box made of the strongest wood and banded with iron.
# 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	Watanabe	Watanabe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	banded	band	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Watanabe | a box |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle | a box *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the strongest wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **band** | participle | a box *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with iron | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with iron=Co-Patient |

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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:pg4018:2622`.

**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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