Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 35
One day some relatives came to call, and the old lady urged them to stay and eat with them.
Who acts: relatives, old lady · What happens: come, call, urge, stay, eat · To what, where: relatives · 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 (relatives, old lady), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 relatives | det |
| 4 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 call | mark |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 urged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 urged | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 urged | nsubj |
| 13 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 urged | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stay | mark |
| 16 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 urged | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 eat | cc |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stay | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 eat | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | some relatives | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | some relatives not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | urge | past | the old lady | relatives = relative | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old lady not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat | infinitive | the old lady not said here | with relatives = relative | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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