Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 45
The old lady wept most bitterly and refused to be comforted.
Who acts: old lady · What happens: weep, refuse, not comfort
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wept | nsubj |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 bitterly | advmod |
| 6 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 4 wept | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 refused | cc |
| 8 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wept | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 comforted | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 comforted | aux:pass |
| 11 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 refused | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the old lady | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | the old lady not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not comfort | to-infinitive · passive | the old lady not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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