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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 84

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When they heard the story they were most indignant at such ingratitude, and then and there took a solemn vow of eternal enmity to the cats for all time to come.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** hear, be, take, come, vow · **To what, where:** story, such ingratitude, solemn vow, cats, eternal enmity

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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), 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:pg75089:14:84
# text = When they heard the story they were most indignant at such ingratitude, and then and there took a solemn vow of eternal enmity to the cats for all time to come.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	indignant	indignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	conj	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	enmity	enmity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | dog | the story |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | dog | the story *not said here* |  | such ingratitude |  | indignant *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | dog *not said here* | a solemn vow of eternal enmity | the cats | there | then; time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vow=Theme to cat=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **vow** |  |  | eternal enmity |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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