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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 69

Before she got on his back he said to her, “We are both very hungry; now, if in going over the river you see a fish or anything good to eat, don’t try to get it, for if you do you will drop the treasure.”

Who acts: cat, son, We, fish · What happens: get, say, be, go, see, eat · To what, where: back, cat, river, fish, treasure · 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, son, We, fish), 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

marknsubjadvclcasenmod:possoblnsubjcaseoblpunctpunctnsubjcopadvmodadvmodccomppunctadvmodpunctmarkmarkadvclcasedetoblnsubjccompdetobjccconjamodmarkxcomppunctconjauxconjmarkxcompobjpunctmarkmarknsubjauxnsubjauxconjdetobjpunctpunctrootBeforeSCONJshePRONgotVERBonADPhisPRONbackNOUNhePRONsaidVERBtoADPherPRON,PUNCT“PUNCTWePRONareAUXbothADVveryADVhungryADJ;PUNCTnowADV,PUNCTifSCONJinSCONJgoingVERBoverADPtheDETriverNOUNyouPRONseeVERBaDETfishNOUNorCCONJanythingPRONgoodADJtoPARTeatVERB,PUNCTdoVERBn’tAUXtryVERBtoPARTgetVERBitPRON,PUNCTforSCONJifSCONJyouPRONdoAUXyouPRONwillAUXdropVERBtheDETtreasureNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BeforebeforeSCONJ_3 gotmark
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 gotnsubj
3gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 saidadvcl
4ononADP_6 backcase
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 backnmod:poss
6backbackNOUNNumber=Sing3 gotobl
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 saidnsubj
8saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9totoADP_10 hercase
10hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 saidobl
11,,PUNCT_17 hungrypunct
12“"PUNCT_17 hungrypunct
13WewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs17 hungrynsubj
14arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 hungrycop
15bothbothADV_17 hungryadvmod
16veryveryADV_17 hungryadvmod
17hungryhungryADJDegree=Pos8 saidccomp
18;;PUNCT_19 nowpunct
19nownowADVPronType=Dem17 hungryadvmod
20,,PUNCT_23 goingpunct
21ififSCONJ_23 goingmark
22ininSCONJ_23 goingmark
23goinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part28 seeadvcl
24overoverADP_26 rivercase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 riverdet
26riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing23 goingobl
27youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs28 seensubj
28seeseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 saidccomp
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 fishdet
30fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing28 seeobj
31ororCCONJ_32 anythingcc
32anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind30 fishconj
33goodgoodADJDegree=Pos32 anythingamod
34totoPART_35 eatmark
35eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf33 goodxcomp
36,,PUNCT_37 dopunct
37dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf28 seeconj
38n’tn'tAUXVerbForm=Fin39 tryaux
39trytryVERBVerbForm=Inf28 seeconj
40totoPART_41 getmark
41getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf39 tryxcomp
42ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 getobj
43,,PUNCT_50 droppunct
44forforSCONJ_50 dropmark
45ififSCONJ_47 domark
46youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs47 donsubj
47dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin50 dropaux
48youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs50 dropnsubj
49willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin50 dropaux
50dropdropVERBVerbForm=Inf41 getconj
51thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art52 treasuredet
52treasuretreasureNOUNNumber=Sing50 dropobj
53..PUNCT_8 saidpunct
54”"PUNCT_8 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastcatson's backvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source
2say speech: assertpastsoncatvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
3is in a quotepresentWenowboth, hungry propertytree rules
4go a condition, not said to happen, in a quotegerundcat not said herethe rivervn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over river=Initial_Location
5see in a quotepresentcata fish anythingvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
6eat in a quoteto-infinitivea fish anything not said herevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7do in a quoteinfinitivecat not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8not try in a quoteinfinitivecat not said herevn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9get not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivecat not said herefishvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
10drop in a quotepresent · do-supportcatthe treasurevn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=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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