🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 36

They refused at first, as they thought they could not provide anything worth eating, but finally, at the old lady’s most earnest request, they consented.

Who acts: relatives, old lady · What happens: refuse, think, not provide, eat, consent, request · To what, where: anything, earnest request · 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

Pragmatics

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.

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