Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 79
This time in their gratitude they fed the cat first, all she could eat, but forgot the dog, so absorbed were they in their own supper and in planning a good, safe hiding-place for the most precious charm.
Who acts: dog, all · What happens: feed, eat, forget, absorb, be, plan · To what, where: cat, dog, own supper, good safe hiding place
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 (dog, all), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 gratitude | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fed | nsubj |
| 7 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cat | det |
| 9 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fed | obj |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 fed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fed | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 forgot | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 forgot | cc |
| 18 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forgot | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 absorbed | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 absorbed | advmod |
| 23 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 forgot | conj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 supper | cop |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 supper | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 supper | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 supper | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 supper | amod |
| 29 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 absorbed | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 supper | cc |
| 31 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 32 planning | mark |
| 32 | planning | plan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 and | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 place | det |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 place | amod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 good | punct |
| 36 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 place | amod |
| 37 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 place | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 hiding | punct |
| 39 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 planning | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 charm | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 charm | det |
| 42 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 43 precious | advmod |
| 43 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 charm | amod |
| 44 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 place | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | dog | the cat | time | first property | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient | ||
| 2 | eat | could | all | cat nsubj | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | forget | past | dog not said here | the dog | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | absorb | participle | dog not said here | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal | |||||
| 5 | is | past | dog | dog's own supper | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | plan | gerund | dog not said here | a good safe hiding place | for the precious charm | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
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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