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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

advmodnsubjadvclmarkxcompdetobjnsubjobjcasedetoblpunctaclcasedetoblpunctconjnmod:possobjpunctccadvmodconjcasedetoblamodobl:unmarkedobjnsubjacl:relclmarkxcomppunctrootWhenADVyouPRONwishVERBtoPARTcookVERBaDETmealNOUNyouPRONputVERBthisPRONinADPtheDETkettleNOUN,PUNCTputVERBonADPtheDETcoverNOUN,PUNCTlightVERByourPRONfireNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVrepeatVERBtoADPtheDETkettleNOUNseveralADJtimesNOUNwhatPRONyouPRONwantVERBtoPARTeatVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 wishadvmod
2youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs3 wishnsubj
3wishwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 putadvcl
4totoPART_5 cookmark
5cookcookVERBVerbForm=Inf3 wishxcomp
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 mealdet
7mealmealNOUNNumber=Sing5 cookobj
8youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs9 putnsubj
9putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
10thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem9 putobj
11ininADP_13 kettlecase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 kettledet
13kettlekettleNOUNNumber=Sing9 putobl
14,,PUNCT_15 putpunct
15putputVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 kettleacl
16ononADP_18 covercase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 coverdet
18covercoverNOUNNumber=Sing15 putobl
19,,PUNCT_20 lightpunct
20lightlightVERBVerbForm=Inf9 putconj
21youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 firenmod:poss
22firefireNOUNNumber=Sing20 lightobj
23,,PUNCT_26 repeatpunct
24andandCCONJ_26 repeatcc
25thenthenADVPronType=Dem26 repeatadvmod
26repeatrepeatVERBVerbForm=Inf9 putconj
27totoADP_29 kettlecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 kettledet
29kettlekettleNOUNNumber=Sing26 repeatobl
30severalseveralADJDegree=Pos31 timesamod
31timestimeNOUNNumber=Plur26 repeatobl:unmarked
32whatwhatPRONPronType=Int34 wantobj
33youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs34 wantnsubj
34wantwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin31 timesacl:relcl
35totoPART_36 eatmark
36eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf34 wantxcomp
37..PUNCT_9 putpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wishpresentyouvn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2cook not said to happento-infinitiveyou not said herea mealvn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
3putpresentyouthisthe kettlevn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme in kettle=Destination
4putparticiplethe kettle not said herethe covervn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cover=Destination
5lightinfinitiveyou not said hereyour firevn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
6repeatinfinitiveyou not said herethen; timeto the kettlevn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7wantpresentyouseveral timestree rules
8eat not said to happento-infinitiveseveral times not said herevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9fireyournom 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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