Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 75
The frog agreed and jumped into the river, and after a little returned with the lost charm.
Who acts: frog · What happens: agree, jump, return, lose · To what, where: river, little
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 (frog), 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 frog | det |
| 2 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 jumped | cc |
| 5 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 returned | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 returned | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 agreed | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 charm | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 charm | det |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 charm | amod |
| 18 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the frog | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | jump | past | the frog not said here | into the river result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into river=Result | ||||
| 3 | return | participle | the frog not said here | a little | with the lost charm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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