Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 73
The cat was so sorry, and promised she would think of a way to get it if only he would not bark so loudly.
Who acts: cat, son · What happens: be, promise, think, get, not bark · To what, where: way · 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), 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 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promised | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 promised | cc |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | advcl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promised | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 think | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 think | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 bark | mark |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 bark | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bark | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 bark | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 bark | advmod |
| 23 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 get | advcl |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 loudly | advmod |
| 25 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 23 bark | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cat | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the cat not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other not said to happen | would | cat | of a way | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not bark a condition, not said to happen | would | son | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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