Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 47
After that they had to eat millet and cornmeal again, and hard indeed it was, as they had become used to good food.
Who acts: dog · What happens: have, eat, be, become, use · To what, where: millet
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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 had | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cornmeal | cc |
| 9 | cornmeal | cornmeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 millet | conj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 eat | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hard | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hard | cc |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | conj |
| 14 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 hard | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 was | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hard | cop |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 become | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 become | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 hard | parataxis |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 become | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 food | case |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 food | amod |
| 25 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 used | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | dog | after that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | dog not said here | millet and cornmeal | again | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millet=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | dog not said here | hard, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | dog | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | use | participle | dog not said here | to good food | vn eat-39.1 «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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