Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 80
After a little the cat went out into the yard, and seeing the poor, hungry dog, she told him with great pride of all the good things she had had to eat, and the nice things the family had promised her.
Who acts: cat, good things · What happens: go out, see, tell, have, eat, promise · To what, where: little, poor hungry dog, frog, good things, nice things, cat · 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, good things), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 went | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 yard | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 yard | det |
| 10 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seeing | cc |
| 13 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 poor | punct |
| 17 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seeing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | nsubj |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 pride | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pride | amod |
| 25 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 things | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 things | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 things | det |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 things | amod |
| 30 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pride | nmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 had | aux |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 things | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 eat | mark |
| 35 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 had | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 promised | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 promised | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 things | det |
| 39 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 things | amod |
| 40 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 family | det |
| 42 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 promised | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 promised | aux |
| 44 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 told | ccomp |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 promised | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the cat | a little | into the yard; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | the cat not said here | the poor hungry dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | cat | frog | with great pride of all good things | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | have | past · perfect | cat | all good things not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | all good things not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect · passive | the nice things | cat | the family nsubj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal she=Theme | |||
| 7 | pride | all good things | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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