Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 13
When the water boils the food is ready; take off the cover and eat, and you and your son be happy.”
Who acts: water, you · What happens: boil, be, take off, eat · To what, where: food, cover
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 (water, you), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 boils | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boils | nsubj |
| 4 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 food | det |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boils | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | cop |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ready | xcomp |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 take | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cover | det |
| 13 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eat | cc |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 happy | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 happy | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 happy | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 son | cc |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 you | conj |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 happy | cop |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 take | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | present | the water | the food | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | ready property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take off | infinitive | the cover | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | you | happy property | tree rules |
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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