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title: “There is nothing left for you,” said the cat, “and if you are hungr… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: “There is nothing left for you,” said the cat, “and if you are hungry you had better fly around and find a bone.” Who acts: nothing, cat, you. 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 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 81

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“There is nothing left for you,” said the cat, “and if you are hungry you had better fly around and find a bone.”

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**Who acts:** nothing, cat, you · **What happens:** be, leave, say, have, fly around, find · **To what, where:** bone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nothing, cat, you), 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:pg75089:14:81
# text = “There is nothing left for you,” said the cat, “and if you are hungry you had better fly around and find a bone.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	_
23	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	around	around	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for you | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for you=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fly around** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **find** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a bone |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic |

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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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