Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 81
“There is nothing left for you,” said the cat, “and if you are hungry you had better fly around and find a bone.”
Who acts: nothing, cat, you · What happens: be, leave, say, have, fly around, find · To what, where: bone · 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 (nothing, cat, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nothing | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 left | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cat | det |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hungry | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hungry | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hungry | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 hungry | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 hungry | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hungry | cop |
| 19 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hungry | ccomp |
| 22 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 had | xcomp |
| 23 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 had | xcomp |
| 24 | around | around | ADV | _ | 23 fly | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 find | cc |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fly | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bone | det |
| 28 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 find | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | participle | for you | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for you=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fly around in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | around property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | find in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a bone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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