Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 27

But to his mother he said, “Nothing you make is bad; it all tastes good.”

Who acts: son, mother, Nothing, cornmeal · What happens: say, make, be, taste · To what, where: mother · 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, mother, Nothing, cornmeal), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 mother	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bad	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 bad	punct
9	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 bad	nsubj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 make	nsubj
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Nothing	acl:relcl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bad	cop
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tastes	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tastes	nsubj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 it	det
17	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tastes	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 tastes	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 tastes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	son	son's mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	present	son's mother = mother			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	Nothing		bad property	tree rules
4	taste in a quote	present	cornmeal		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 27