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title: There is an interesting story of how she mended a part of the broken… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics
description: There is an interesting story of how she mended a part of the broken heavens and one of the terrestrial pillars which upheld the sky, both of which were damaged during a rebellion raised by one of King Fuki’s subjects. Who acts: interesting story, story, terrestrial pillars. A sentence of «Japanese 
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# Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki, sentence 2761

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There is an interesting story of how she mended a part of the broken heavens and one of the terrestrial pillars which upheld the sky, both of which were damaged during a rebellion raised by one of King Fuki’s subjects.

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**Who acts:** interesting story, story, terrestrial pillars · **What happens:** be, mend, uphold, damage, raise · **To what, where:** part, sky, both, rebellion

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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 (interesting story, story, terrestrial pillars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:2761
# text = There is an interesting story of how she mended a part of the broken heavens and one of the terrestrial pillars which upheld the sky, both of which were damaged during a rebellion raised by one of King Fuki’s subjects.
# 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	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	mended	mend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	terrestrial	terrestrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	upheld	uphold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nmod	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
32	during	during	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obl:agent	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	_
40	Fuki	Fuki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	_
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
42	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a interesting story |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mend** | past | story | a part of the broken heavens |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **uphold** | past | the terrestrial pillars | the sky |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **damage** | past · passive |  | both |  |  | during a rebellion |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **raise** | participle |  | a rebellion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: 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:pg4018:2761`.

**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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