--- title: The general of the front forces must be I!” He looked back and saw E… — Japanese Fairy Tales, by Yei Theodora Ozaki · tree and pragmatics description: The general of the front forces must be I!” He looked back and saw Eiko his comrade, riding on a white horse, in the act of unsheathing a large sword to draw upon him. Who acts: general, King, act. 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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 (general, King, act), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg4018:2774 # text = The general of the front forces must be I!” He looked back and saw Eiko his comrade, riding on a white horse, in the act of unsheathing a large sword to draw upon him. # 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 general general NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 parataxis _ _ 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 Eiko Eiko PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 comrade comrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 act act NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 30 of of SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 unsheathing unsheathe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | must | the general of the front forces | I | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look back** *in a quote* | past | King | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | King *not said here* | Eiko | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eiko=Stimulus | | 4 | **ride** *in a quote* | gerund | King *not said here* | | | the act | | on a white horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **unsheathe** *in a quote* | gerund | the act *not said here* | a large sword | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **draw** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the act *not said here* | | | | | upon King | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:pg4018:2774`. **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…, 2761](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/2761/) - next →: [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece an…, 169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22381/169/) - ↑ back to [the tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg4018/)