Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 5

She was his one thought, but with all his efforts it was but a poor living that he could give her, and it was a great sorrow to him.

Who acts: widow, many, thought · What happens: be, give · To what, where: one thought, poor living, widow, great sorrow, many

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 (widow, many, thought), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 thought	nmod:poss
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thought	nummod
5	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 efforts	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 efforts	cc
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 efforts	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 efforts	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 efforts	nmod:poss
11	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	nmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 was	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 efforts	acl:relcl
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 living	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 living	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 living	amod
17	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 efforts	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 give	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 living	acl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sorrow	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sorrow	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sorrow	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sorrow	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sorrow	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sorrow	amod
29	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sorrow	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	widow	many's one thought		with many's efforts but a poor living; many nmod:poss	tree rules
2	give	could	many	a poor living not said here	widow		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	is a	past	thought	a great sorrow	many		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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 5