Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 85
Thus they have kept their vow, and to this day in all lands the dog is the enemy of the cat.
Who acts: dog · What happens: keep, land, be, vow · To what, where: dog, enemy
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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 kept | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 vow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lands | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lands | cc |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lands | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | nmod |
| 14 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enemy | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 enemy | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 enemy | det |
| 19 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lands | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cat | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cat | det |
| 22 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enemy | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · perfect · passive | dog | dog's vow obj; thus property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme vow=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | land | present | day | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the dog | the enemy | of the cat | tree rules | |||
| 4 | vow | dog | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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