Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 50
Then he remembered the neighbour who came and went into the closet, and came out after a while with the treasure in his hand, and how he saw him put it in his pocket.
Who acts: son, neighbour · What happens: remember, come, go, come out, see, put · To what, where: neighbour, closet, water, pocket
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 (son, neighbour), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 neighbour | det |
| 5 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 neighbour | acl:relcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 closet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 closet | det |
| 12 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 while | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 while | det |
| 19 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 treasure | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 treasure | det |
| 22 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 treasure | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saw | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saw | cc |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 saw | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saw | nsubj |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saw | obj |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 saw | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 put | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 pocket | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 36 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obl | ||
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | son | the neighbour | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | the neighbour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the neighbour not said here | the closet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into closet=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | come out | past | son not said here | while | with the treasure in son's hand; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | see | past | son | water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | put | past | son not said here | neighbour | son's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination |
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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