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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 49

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Finally the dog concluded that the reason was because the bright, pretty ornament their mistress always put in the kettle was no longer used and must be lost, and that was why the mistress cried so much.

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**Who acts:** dog, that, mistress · **What happens:** conclude, be, put, use, lose, cry · **To what, where:** bright pretty ornament, mistress, kettle

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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 (dog, that, mistress), 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:pg75089:14:49
# text = Finally the dog concluded that the reason was because the bright, pretty ornament their mistress always put in the kettle was no longer used and must be lost, and that was why the mistress cried so much.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl:relcl	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	much	much	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | past | the dog |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the bright pretty ornament |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | participle |  | dog's mistress *not said here* |  | the kettle |  | always *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in kettle=Destination |
| 4 | **use** | past · passive |  | dog's mistress |  |  |  | long *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **lose** | must · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the mistress |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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