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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

advmoddetnsubjobldetacl:relclcopmarkdetamodpunctamodapposnmod:possnsubj:passadvmodaclcasedetoblaux:passadvmodadvmodparataxisccauxaux:passconjpunctccnsubjcopconjdetnsubjadvcl:relcladvmodadvmodpunctrootFinallyADVtheDETdogNOUNconcludedVERBthatSCONJtheDETreasonNOUNwasAUXbecauseSCONJtheDETbrightADJ,PUNCTprettyADJornamentNOUNtheirPRONmistressNOUNalwaysADVputVERBinADPtheDETkettleNOUNwasAUXnoADVlongerADVusedVERBandCCONJmustAUXbeAUXlostVERB,PUNCTandCCONJthatPRONwasAUXwhyADVtheDETmistressNOUNcriedVERBsoADVmuchADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FinallyfinallyADV_4 concludedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 dogdet
3dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing4 concludednsubj
4concludedconcludeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thatthatSCONJ_4 concludedobl
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 reasondet
7reasonreasonNOUNNumber=Sing5 thatacl:relcl
8wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 ornamentcop
9becausebecauseSCONJ_14 ornamentmark
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 ornamentdet
11brightbrightADJDegree=Pos14 ornamentamod
12,,PUNCT_11 brightpunct
13prettyprettyADJDegree=Pos14 ornamentamod
14ornamentornamentNOUNNumber=Sing7 reasonappos
15theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 mistressnmod:poss
16mistressmistressNOUNNumber=Sing25 usednsubj:pass
17alwaysalwaysADVPronType=Tot18 putadvmod
18putputVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 mistressacl
19ininADP_21 kettlecase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 kettledet
21kettlekettleNOUNNumber=Sing18 putobl
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 usedaux:pass
23nonoADV_24 longeradvmod
24longerlongADVDegree=Cmp25 usedadvmod
25useduseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 ornamentparataxis
26andandCCONJ_29 lostcc
27mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin29 lostaux
28bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf29 lostaux:pass
29lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 usedconj
30,,PUNCT_34 whypunct
31andandCCONJ_34 whycc
32thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem34 whynsubj
33wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 whycop
34whywhyADVPronType=Int25 usedconj
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 mistressdet
36mistressmistressNOUNNumber=Sing37 criednsubj
37criedcryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 whyadvcl:relcl
38sosoADV_39 muchadvmod
39muchmuchADV_37 criedadvmod
40..PUNCT_4 concludedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1concludepastthe dogfinally propertyvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2is apastthe bright pretty ornamenttree rules
3putparticipledog's mistress not said herethe kettlealways propertyvn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in kettle=Destination
4usepast · passivedog's mistresslong propertyvn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5losemust · passivevn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»
6ispastthatwhy propertytree rules
7cry speech: expresspastthe mistressvn 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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