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title: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is considered the oldest extant Japane… — Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is considered the oldest extant Japanese narrative. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Japan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Japan, sentence 375

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From Wikipedia, [«Japan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is considered the oldest extant Japanese narrative.

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**What happens:** consider · **To what, where:** Tale

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Japan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Japan:375
# text = The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is considered the oldest extant Japanese narrative.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tale	Tale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Bamboo	Bamboo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Cutter	Cutter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
11	extant	extant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present · passive |  | the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter |  |  |  | the oldest extant Japanese narrative *xcomp* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |

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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 English Wikipedia, «Japan», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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