Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 6

One day the gods said, “Such a son must be helped;” so after talking the matter over, one of them, dressed as a temple priest, went to their gate and knocked.

Who acts: gods · What happens: say, help, talk over, dress, go, knock · To what, where: son, matter, gate · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (gods), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gods	det
4	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 helped	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 helped	punct
8	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 son	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 son	det
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 helped	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 helped	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 helped	aux:pass
13	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 helped	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 helped	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	13 helped	advmod
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 talking	mark
18	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 helped	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 matter	det
20	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 talking	obj
21	over	over	ADV	_	18 talking	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 talking	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 one	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dressed	punct
27	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 helped	conj
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 priest	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 priest	det
30	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 priest	compound
31	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dressed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 gate	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 gate	nmod:poss
36	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 knocked	cc
38	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 went	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the gods			day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help in a quote	must · passive		such son				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
3	talk over	gerund		the matter			one of gods parataxis; over property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent matter=Patient
4	dress	participle					as a temple priest	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	past			gods's gate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
6	knock	past						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 6