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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 71

Just before reaching the other side a fish jumped up in the cat’s face, and before she thought, she made a grab for it and so lost the ornament in the river.

Who acts: reaching, cat · What happens: reach, jump up, think, make, lose · To what, where: other side, face, grab, ornament, river

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 (reaching, 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

advmodmarkcsubjdetamodobjdetobjcompound:prtcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccmarknsubjadvclpunctnsubjparataxisdetobjcasenmodccadvmodconjdetobjcasedetoblpunctrootJustADVbeforeSCONJreachingVERBtheDETotherADJsideNOUNaDETfishNOUNjumpedVERBupADPinADPtheDETcatNOUN’sPARTfaceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbeforeSCONJshePRONthoughtVERB,PUNCTshePRONmadeVERBaDETgrabNOUNforADPitPRONandCCONJsoADVlostVERBtheDETornamentNOUNinADPtheDETriverNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1JustjustADV_3 reachingadvmod
2beforebeforeSCONJ_3 reachingmark
3reachingreachVERBVerbForm=Ger9 jumpedcsubj
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 sidedet
5otherotherADJDegree=Pos6 sideamod
6sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing3 reachingobj
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 fishdet
8fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing3 reachingobj
9jumpedjumpVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10upupADP_9 jumpedcompound:prt
11ininADP_15 facecase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 catdet
13catcatNOUNNumber=Sing15 facenmod:poss
14’s'sPART_13 catcase
15facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing9 jumpedobl
16,,PUNCT_23 madepunct
17andandCCONJ_23 madecc
18beforebeforeSCONJ_20 thoughtmark
19sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 thoughtnsubj
20thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 madeadvcl
21,,PUNCT_20 thoughtpunct
22sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 madensubj
23mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 jumpedparataxis
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 grabdet
25grabgrabNOUNNumber=Sing23 madeobj
26forforADP_27 itcase
27ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 grabnmod
28andandCCONJ_30 lostcc
29sosoADV_30 lostadvmod
30lostloseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 madeconj
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 ornamentdet
32ornamentornamentNOUNNumber=Sing30 lostobj
33ininADP_35 rivercase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 riverdet
35riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing30 lostobl
36..PUNCT_9 jumpedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachgerundthe other sidea fish objvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent side=Beneficiary fish=Theme
2jump uppastreachingthe cat's facevn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Trajectory
3think speech: otherpastcatvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4makepastcata grabfor fishvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent grab=Product for it=Asset
5losepastcat not said herethe ornamentthe rivervn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ornament=Eventuality

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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