Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 63

The mouse said, “I know about that; every day the family eat good food; let me go and I will get it for you.”

Who acts: mouse · What happens: say, know, eat, let, go, get · To what, where: good food, mouse, food · 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), 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 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 know	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eat	obl:unmarked
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 family	det
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	nmod:unmarked
15	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 food	amod
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eat	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 eat	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 get	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 get	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 get	aux
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 get	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 get	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mouse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	the mouse = mouse			about that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about that=Stimulus
3	eat in a quote	present		good food	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	let in a quote	infinitive		the mouse = mouse			tree rules
5	go in a quote	infinitive	the mouse = mouse not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get in a quote	future	the mouse = mouse	food		for you	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for you=Beneficiary

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 63

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 63