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title: This son’s name was Uraschimataro, which means in Japanese, ‘Son of… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This son’s name was Uraschimataro, which means in Japanese, ‘Son of the island,’ and he was a fine well-grown youth and a good fisherman, minding neither wind nor weather. Who acts: name, Uraschimataro, son. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its de
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 53

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This son’s name was Uraschimataro, which means in Japanese, ‘Son of the island,’ and he was a fine well-grown youth and a good fisherman, minding neither wind nor weather.

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**Who acts:** name, Uraschimataro, son · **What happens:** be, mean, grow, mind, name · **To what, where:** Uraschimataro, fine grown youth, wind

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Uraschimataro, son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:3:53
# text = This son’s name was Uraschimataro, which means in Japanese, ‘Son of the island,’ and he was a fine well-grown youth and a good fisherman, minding neither wind nor weather.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Japanese	Japanese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	‘	‘	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	minding	mind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
35	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	38	cc	_	_
38	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this son's name | Uraschimataro |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Uraschimataro |  |  |  |  | in Japanese and a fine grown youth and a good fisherman | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in japanese=Attribute |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | son | a fine grown youth and a good fisherman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mind** | gerund | Uraschimataro *not said here* | neither wind nor weather |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme |
| 6 | **name** |  | this son |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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