Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 62
The mouse promised gladly, and the cat told of the lost treasure and that it was in the house.
Who acts: mouse, cat · What happens: promise, tell, lose, be · To what, where: house · 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 (mouse, cat), 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 mouse | det |
| 2 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 3 promised | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 treasure | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 treasure | det |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 treasure | amod |
| 13 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 house | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 house | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 house | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 house | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treasure | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the mouse | gladly property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the cat | of the lost treasure and the house | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | mouse | the house | 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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