Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 12
When you wish to cook a meal you put this in the kettle, put on the cover, light your fire, and then repeat to the kettle several times what you want to eat.
Who acts: you, several times, your · What happens: wish, cook, put, light, repeat, want · To what, where: meal, this, kettle, cover, fire, several times
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 (you, several times, your), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 wish | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cook | mark |
| 5 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 meal | det |
| 7 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cook | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 kettle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kettle | det |
| 13 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 kettle | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 cover | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cover | det |
| 18 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 light | punct |
| 20 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | conj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fire | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 light | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 repeat | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 repeat | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 repeat | advmod |
| 26 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 kettle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 kettle | det |
| 29 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 repeat | obl |
| 30 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 times | amod |
| 31 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 repeat | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 want | obj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 want | nsubj |
| 34 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 times | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 eat | mark |
| 36 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 want | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cook not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a meal | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | present | you | this | the kettle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme in kettle=Destination | |||
| 4 | put | participle | the kettle not said here | the cover | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cover=Destination | ||||
| 5 | light | infinitive | you not said here | your fire | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 6 | repeat | infinitive | you not said here | then; time | to the kettle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | want | present | you | several times | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | several times not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | fire | your | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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: «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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