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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 17

She put on her kettle, lighted her fire, and then repeated over and over again till the water boiled, “I want dumplings, meat dumplings.

Who acts: priest, kettle, lady · What happens: put, light, repeat, boil, want, fire · To what, where: kettle, fire, water, dumplings

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, kettle, lady), 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

nsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctaclnmod:possobjpunctccadvmodconjadvmodccadvmodconjcasedetoblaclpunctpunctnsubjconjobjpunctcompoundconjpunctrootShePRONputVERBonADPherPRONkettleNOUN,PUNCTlightedVERBherPRONfireNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVrepeatedVERBoverADVandCCONJoverADVagainADVtillADPtheDETwaterNOUNboiledVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONwantVERBdumplingsNOUN,PUNCTmeatNOUNdumplingsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 putnsubj
2putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ononADP_5 kettlecase
4herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 kettlenmod:poss
5kettlekettleNOUNNumber=Sing2 putobl
6,,PUNCT_7 lightedpunct
7lightedlightVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 kettleacl
8herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 firenmod:poss
9firefireNOUNNumber=Sing7 lightedobj
10,,PUNCT_13 repeatedpunct
11andandCCONJ_13 repeatedcc
12thenthenADVPronType=Dem13 repeatedadvmod
13repeatedrepeatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 putconj
14overoverADV_13 repeatedadvmod
15andandCCONJ_17 againcc
16overoverADV_17 againadvmod
17againagainADV_14 overconj
18tilltillADP_20 watercase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 waterdet
20waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing13 repeatedobl
21boiledboilVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 wateracl
22,,PUNCT_25 wantpunct
23“"PUNCT_25 wantpunct
24IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 wantnsubj
25wantwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 repeatedconj
26dumplingsdumplingNOUNNumber=Plur25 wantobj
27,,PUNCT_29 dumplingspunct
28meatmeatNOUNNumber=Sing29 dumplingscompound
29dumplingsdumplingNOUNNumber=Plur26 dumplingsconj
30..PUNCT_2 putpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1putpastpriestpriest's kettlevn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on kettle=Destination
2lightparticiplepriest's kettle not said herepriest's firevn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3repeatparticiplepriest not said heretill the water; then; againover propertyvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4boilparticiplethe water not said herevn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5want in a quotepresentladydumplings and meat dumplingsvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dumpling=Theme
6firepriestnom 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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