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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 3

Let me tell you the story, and as you listen possibly you can see the dear little children of the great flowery kingdom, many of them looking like little flowers gathered about some old grandma who loves and pets them as do the grandmas of all lands.

Who acts: you, me, many, little flowers, old grandma, pets · What happens: let, tell, listen, see, look, gather · To what, where: me, story, you, dear little children, grandmas · 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 (you, me, many, little flowers), 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

objxcompiobjdetobjpunctccmarknsubjadvcladvmodnsubjauxconjdetamodamodobjcasedetamodamodnmodpunctnsubjcasenmodparataxismarkamodnsubjadvclcasedetamodoblnsubjacl:relclccnsubjnsubjadvmodconjdetobjcasedetnmodpunctrootLetVERBmePRONtellVERByouPRONtheDETstoryNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJyouPRONlistenVERBpossiblyADVyouPRONcanAUXseeVERBtheDETdearADJlittleADJchildrenNOUNofADPtheDETgreatADJfloweryADJkingdomNOUN,PUNCTmanyADJofADPthemPRONlookingVERBlikeSCONJlittleADJflowersNOUNgatheredVERBaboutADPsomeDEToldADJgrandmaNOUNwhoPRONlovesVERBandCCONJpetsNOUNthemPRONasADVdoVERBtheDETgrandmasNOUNofADPallDETlandsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1LetletVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs1 Letobj
3telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf1 Letxcomp
4youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs3 telliobj
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 storydet
6storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing3 tellobj
7,,PUNCT_15 seepunct
8andandCCONJ_15 seecc
9asasSCONJ_11 listenmark
10youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs11 listennsubj
11listenlistenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 seeadvcl
12possiblypossiblyADV_11 listenadvmod
13youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs15 seensubj
14cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin15 seeaux
15seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf1 Letconj
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 childrendet
17deardearADJDegree=Pos19 childrenamod
18littlelittleADJDegree=Pos19 childrenamod
19childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur15 seeobj
20ofofADP_24 kingdomcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 kingdomdet
22greatgreatADJDegree=Pos24 kingdomamod
23floweryfloweryADJDegree=Pos24 kingdomamod
24kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing19 childrennmod
25,,PUNCT_29 lookingpunct
26manymanyADJDegree=Pos29 lookingnsubj
27ofofADP_28 themcase
28themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs26 manynmod
29lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 childrenparataxis
30likelikeSCONJ_33 gatheredmark
31littlelittleADJDegree=Pos32 flowersamod
32flowersflowerNOUNNumber=Plur33 gatherednsubj
33gatheredgatherVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 lookingadvcl
34aboutaboutADP_37 grandmacase
35somesomeDETPronType=Ind37 grandmadet
36oldoldADJDegree=Pos37 grandmaamod
37grandmagrandmaNOUNNumber=Sing33 gatheredobl
38whowhoPRONPronType=Rel39 lovesnsubj
39lovesloveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin37 grandmaacl:relcl
40andandCCONJ_44 docc
41petspetNOUNNumber=Plur44 donsubj
42themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs44 donsubj
43asasADV_44 doadvmod
44dodoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 lovesconj
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 grandmasdet
46grandmasgrandmaNOUNNumber=Plur44 doobj
47ofofADP_49 landscase
48allallDETPronType=Tot49 landsdet
49landslandNOUNNumber=Plur46 grandmasnmod
50..PUNCT_1 Letpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1letimperativeyou not said heremetree rules
2tell speech: assertinfinitiveme not said herethe storyyouvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
3listenpresentyoupossibly propertyvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4seecanyouthe dear little children of the great flowery kingdomvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
5lookgerundmany of storiesvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6gatherpastlittle flowersabout some old grandmavn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7lovepresentsome old grandmavn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
8dopresentpetsthe grandmas of all landsstories = story nsubjvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Eventuality

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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