Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 53
I cannot get it, but you can, for you are able to get on the roofs of houses and crawl in windows, and you must get it.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not get, be, get, crawl · To what, where: neighbour, roofs, windows
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 can | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 can | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 can | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 able | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 able | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 able | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 able | cop |
| 14 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 roofs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 roofs | det |
| 19 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 houses | case |
| 21 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 roofs | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 crawl | cc |
| 23 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 windows | case |
| 25 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 crawl | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 get | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 get | cc |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 get | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 get | aux |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 get | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | can | I | neighbour | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | the roofs of houses | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on roof=Source | ||||
| 4 | crawl | present | you not said here | windows | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in window=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | get | must | you | neighbour | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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