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title: She put on her kettle, lighted her fire, and then repeated over and… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She put on her kettle, lighted her fire, and then repeated over and over again till the water boiled, “I want dumplings, meat dumplings. Who acts: priest, kettle, lady. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, with its dependenc
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 17

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She put on her kettle, lighted her fire, and then repeated over and over again till the water boiled, “I want dumplings, meat dumplings.

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**Who acts:** priest, kettle, lady · **What happens:** put, light, repeat, boil, want, fire · **To what, where:** kettle, fire, water, dumplings

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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 (priest, kettle, lady), 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:pg75089:14:17
# text = She put on her kettle, lighted her fire, and then repeated over and over again till the water boiled, “I want dumplings, meat dumplings.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	over	over	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
18	till	till	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | priest |  |  | priest's kettle |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on kettle=Destination |
| 2 | **light** | participle | priest's kettle *not said here* | priest's fire |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 3 | **repeat** | participle | priest *not said here* |  |  |  | till the water; then; again | over *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **boil** | participle |  | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **want** *in a quote* | present | lady | dumplings and meat dumplings |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dumpling=Theme |
| 6 | **fire** |  | priest |  |  |  |  |  | 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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