Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 30

The mother said, “Son, eat, and I will tell you all about our good luck.”

Who acts: mother, Son · What happens: say, eat, tell · To what, where: you · 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 (mother, Son), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
6	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 eat	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 you	nmod:unmarked
16	about	about	ADP	_	19 luck	case
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 luck	nmod:poss
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 luck	amod
19	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat in a quote	present	Son			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the mother = mother	you	about our good luck	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about luck=Topic

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 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 30