Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 78
Soon a big supper was ready, and once again the mother and son were happy.
Who acts: big supper, mother · What happens: be
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 (big supper, mother), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 ready | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 supper | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 supper | amod |
| 4 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happy | cc |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 again | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 happy | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mother | det |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 happy | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 son | cc |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mother | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happy | cop |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ready | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a big supper | ready, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the mother and son | again | happy property | tree rules |
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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