Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 49
Finally the dog concluded that the reason was because the bright, pretty ornament their mistress always put in the kettle was no longer used and must be lost, and that was why the mistress cried so much.
Who acts: dog, that, mistress · What happens: conclude, be, put, use, lose, cry · To what, where: bright pretty ornament, mistress, kettle
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, that, mistress), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 concluded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 concluded | nsubj |
| 4 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 concluded | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reason | det |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 that | acl:relcl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ornament | cop |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 ornament | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ornament | det |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ornament | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bright | punct |
| 13 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ornament | amod |
| 14 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reason | appos |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 used | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 put | advmod |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 mistress | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 kettle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 kettle | det |
| 21 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 used | aux:pass |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 used | advmod |
| 25 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ornament | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lost | cc |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 lost | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 lost | aux:pass |
| 29 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 used | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 why | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 why | cc |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 why | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 why | cop |
| 34 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 used | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 mistress | det |
| 36 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cried | nsubj |
| 37 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 why | advcl:relcl |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 much | advmod |
| 39 | much | much | ADV | _ | 37 cried | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 concluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | past | the dog | finally property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the bright pretty ornament | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | participle | dog's mistress not said here | the kettle | always property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in kettle=Destination | |||
| 4 | use | past · passive | dog's mistress | long property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | lose | must · passive | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | cry speech: express | past | the mistress | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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