Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 64

“No,” said the cat, “I cannot let you go, for you would not come back.

Who acts: cat, you · What happens: say, not let, go, not come back · To what, where: you · 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 let	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 let	advmod
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not let in a quote	can	the cat = cat	you	tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not come back in a quote	would	you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 64

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 64