Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 65

I will hold you closely, but you call your companions and tell them where it is, and when they bring it I will let you go.”

Who acts: I, you, food, companions · What happens: hold, call, tell, be, bring, let · To what, where: you, companions, 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 (I, you, food, companions), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hold	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	aux
3	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hold	obj
5	closely	closely	ADV	_	3 hold	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 call	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	parataxis
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 companions	nmod:poss
11	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 call	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 call	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 tell	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 where	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 where	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 bring	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bring	nsubj
22	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 let	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bring	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 let	aux
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hold	future	I	you		closely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	call	present	you	your companions			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent companion=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		companions = companion		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	is	present	food			where property	tree rules
5	bring	present	companions = companion	food			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	let	future	I	you			tree rules
7	go	infinitive	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 65

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 65