Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 23
How their sides filled out, and they jumped upon her to express their thanks.
Who acts: sides · What happens: fill out, jump, express · To what, where: sides, thanks
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 (sides), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 filled | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sides | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 filled | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 jumped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 jumped | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 jumped | nsubj |
| 9 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | conj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 jumped | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 express | mark |
| 13 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 jumped | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 thanks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 express | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill out | participle · passive | dog's sides | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | jump | past | sides = side | upon priest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | express | to-infinitive | sides = side not said here | dog's thanks | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=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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