Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 84
When they heard the story they were most indignant at such ingratitude, and then and there took a solemn vow of eternal enmity to the cats for all time to come.
Who acts: dog · What happens: hear, be, take, come, vow · To what, where: story, such ingratitude, solemn vow, cats, eternal enmity
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 indignant | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 indignant | cop |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 indignant | advmod |
| 9 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | acl:relcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 ingratitude | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ingratitude | amod |
| 12 | ingratitude | ingratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 indignant | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 took | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 there | cc |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 then | conj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 vow | det |
| 20 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 vow | amod |
| 21 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 enmity | case |
| 23 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 enmity | amod |
| 24 | enmity | enmity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vow | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 cats | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cats | det |
| 27 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 time | det |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 come | mark |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 time | acl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | dog | the story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | dog | the story not said here | such ingratitude | indignant property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | take | past | dog not said here | a solemn vow of eternal enmity | the cats | there | then; time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vow=Theme to cat=Destination | |
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | dog not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | vow | eternal enmity | nom vow «communication 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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