Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 4

In the long, long ago there lived in the country a poor widow who had only one son; but he was very kind and good to her, working early and late to support her.

Who acts: poor widow, many · What happens: live, have, be, work, support · To what, where: long, one son, widow

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 (poor widow, many), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 long	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 long	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lived	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 ago	advmod
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lived	advmod
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 widow	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 widow	amod
14	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 country	appos
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 widow	acl:relcl
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 one	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 son	nummod
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 kind	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 kind	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kind	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 kind	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 kind	advmod
25	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lived	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 good	cc
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kind	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kind	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 working	punct
31	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 kind	conj
32	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 working	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 late	cc
34	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 early	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 support	mark
36	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 working	advcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 support	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past				the long; there	in the country	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in long=Location
2	have	past	a poor widow	one son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is	past	many		widow		kind property	tree rules
4	be		many not said here					tree rules
5	work	gerund	many not said here				early property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	support	to-infinitive	many not said here	widow				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 4