Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 56
When they reached the river the cat jumped on the dog’s back and he took her over safely.
Who acts: women, cat, son · What happens: reach, jump, take over · To what, where: river, back, cat
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 (women, cat, son), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jumped | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jumped | nsubj |
| 8 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 dog | case |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jumped | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jumped | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 took | compound:prt |
| 19 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | women = woman | the river | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | the cat | the dog's back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | take over | past | son | cat | safely property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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