Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 25

When he came home looking so tired, she said, “I have a good supper for you to-night, my son; all you want and more.”

Who acts: son, priest, you · What happens: come, look, say, have, want · To what, where: good supper · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son, priest, 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 tired	advmod
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looking	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 supper	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 supper	amod
17	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 supper	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 night	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 son	punct
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 son	nmod:poss
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 all	punct
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 said	ccomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 want	nsubj
29	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 all	acl:relcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 more	cc
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 all	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	son			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	son not said here			tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	priest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	priest	a good supper	night	for you; my son conj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
5	want in a quote	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 25