Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 41
Only the dog was in the room, and though he saw, he did not know how great the loss was.
Who acts: dog, water, loss · What happens: be, see, not know · To what, where: room · 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 (dog, water, loss), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 dog | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 room | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 saw | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 room | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saw | conj |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 great | advmod |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 know | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 loss | det |
| 21 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 great | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 great | cop |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 room | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dog | the room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | water | the room not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the loss | great property | tree rules |
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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