Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 9
To this the priest replied, “I have not come to get your help but to help you.”
Who acts: priest, your · What happens: reply, not come, get, help · To what, where: this, help, you · 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 (priest, your), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 replied | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 priest | det |
| 4 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 come | advmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | xcomp |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 help | nmod:poss |
| 15 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 help | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 get | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the priest | this | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to this=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not come in a quote | present | the priest = priest | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | the priest = priest not said here | your help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | the priest = priest not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | help in a quote | your | nom help «act 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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