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title: When you wish to cook a meal you put this in the kettle, put on the… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: When you wish to cook a meal you put this in the kettle, put on the cover, light your fire, and then repeat to the kettle several times what you want to eat. Who acts: you, several times, your. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be En
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 12

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When you wish to cook a meal you put this in the kettle, put on the cover, light your fire, and then repeat to the kettle several times what you want to eat.

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**Who acts:** you, several times, your · **What happens:** wish, cook, put, light, repeat, want · **To what, where:** meal, this, kettle, cover, fire, several times

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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 (you, several times, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:14:12
# text = When you wish to cook a meal you put this in the kettle, put on the cover, light your fire, and then repeat to the kettle several times what you want to eat.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	34	obj	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **cook** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a meal |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | present | you | this |  | the kettle |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme in kettle=Destination |
| 4 | **put** | participle |  | the kettle *not said here* |  | the cover |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cover=Destination |
| 5 | **light** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your fire |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 6 | **repeat** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then; time | to the kettle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **want** | present | you | several times |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | several times *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **fire** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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