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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

punctexplccompnsubjaclcaseoblpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctccmarknsubjcopccompnsubjccompxcompxcompadvmodccconjdetobjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTTherePRONisVERBnothingPRONleftVERBforADPyouPRON,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETcatNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTandCCONJifSCONJyouPRONareAUXhungryADJyouPRONhadVERBbetterADJflyVERBaroundADVandCCONJfindVERBaDETboneNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_10 saidpunct
2TheretherePRONPronType=Dem3 isexpl
3isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 saidccomp
4nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg3 isnsubj
5leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 nothingacl
6forforADP_7 youcase
7youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs5 leftobl
8,,PUNCT_3 ispunct
9”"PUNCT_3 ispunct
10saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 catdet
12catcatNOUNNumber=Sing10 saidobj
13,,PUNCT_19 hungrypunct
14“"PUNCT_19 hungrypunct
15andandCCONJ_19 hungrycc
16ififSCONJ_19 hungrymark
17youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs19 hungrynsubj
18arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 hungrycop
19hungryhungryADJDegree=Pos10 saidccomp
20youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs21 hadnsubj
21hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 hungryccomp
22bettergoodADJDegree=Cmp21 hadxcomp
23flyflyVERBVerbForm=Inf21 hadxcomp
24aroundaroundADV_23 flyadvmod
25andandCCONJ_26 findcc
26findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf23 flyconj
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 bonedet
28boneboneNOUNNumber=Sing26 findobj
29..PUNCT_10 saidpunct
30”"PUNCT_10 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1be in a quotepresentnothingtherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2leave in a quoteparticiplefor youvn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for you=Recipient
3say speech: assertpastthe catvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4is a condition, not said to happen, in a quotepresentyouhungry propertytree rules
5have in a quotepastyougood propertytree rules
6fly around in a quoteinfinitiveyou not said herearound propertyvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7find in a quoteinfinitiveyou not said herea bonevn 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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