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title: After eating all she could, she fed the cat and dog, and they, too,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: After eating all she could, she fed the cat and dog, and they, too, were wild with delight. Who acts: priest, dog. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 22

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After eating all she could, she fed the cat and dog, and they, too, were wild with delight.

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**Who acts:** priest, dog · **What happens:** eat, feed, be · **To what, where:** all, cat

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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, dog), 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:pg75089:14:22
# text = After eating all she could, she fed the cat and dog, and they, too, were wild with delight.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund | priest *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient |
| 2 | **feed** | past | priest |  | the cat and dog |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | dog |  |  |  |  | with delight; wild *property* | tree rules |

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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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