Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 71
In the night this cunning little fellow rose and went to the pot.
What happens: go · To what, where: pot, cunning little fellow rose
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rose | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rose | amod |
| 7 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rose | amod |
| 8 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 pot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the pot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pot=Initial_Location |
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.
Text: «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (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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