Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 11
The priest said, “It is a fact, and I now give you this gold ornament.
Who acts: priest, thing · What happens: say, be, give · To what, where: fact, gold ornament, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fact | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fact | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fact | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fact | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fact | det |
| 9 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 give | advmod |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 ornament | det |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ornament | compound |
| 18 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the priest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | thing | a fact | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present | the priest = priest | this gold ornament | you | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ornament=Theme |
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: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (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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