Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 61

The cat said, “Mouse, I will save your life if you will do me a favour.”

Who acts: cat, you · What happens: say, save, do · To what, where: Mouse, favour, cat · 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 (cat, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 save	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 save	punct
6	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 save	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Mouse	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 save	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 save	aux
10	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 life	nmod:poss
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 save	obj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 do	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 save	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 favour	det
19	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 save	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cat				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	save in a quote	future	the cat = cat	Mouse		your life obj	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	a favour	the cat = cat		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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 61