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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 listen | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 listen | nsubj |
| 11 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | advcl |
| 12 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 11 listen | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 children | det |
| 17 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 children | amod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 see | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 kingdom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kingdom | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 kingdom | amod |
| 23 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 kingdom | amod |
| 24 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 children | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 looking | punct |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 looking | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 many | nmod |
| 29 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 children | parataxis |
| 30 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 33 gathered | mark |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 flowers | amod |
| 32 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 gathered | nsubj |
| 33 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 looking | advcl |
| 34 | about | about | ADP | _ | 37 grandma | case |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 grandma | det |
| 36 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 grandma | amod |
| 37 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gathered | obl |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 loves | nsubj |
| 39 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 grandma | acl:relcl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 do | cc |
| 41 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 do | nsubj |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 do | nsubj |
| 43 | as | as | ADV | _ | 44 do | advmod |
| 44 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 loves | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 grandmas | det |
| 46 | grandmas | grandma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 do | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 lands | case |
| 48 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 lands | det |
| 49 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 grandmas | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | me not said here | the story | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 3 | listen | present | you | possibly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | can | you | the dear little children of the great flowery kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | many of stories | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | gather | past | little flowers | about some old grandma | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | love | present | some old grandma | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | do | present | pets | the grandmas of all lands | stories = story nsubj | vn 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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