Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 72
His mother heard something at the pot, and struck with a stick.
Who acts: mother · What happens: hear, strike · To what, where: something, pot
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: who acts (mother), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 pot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 struck | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 struck | cc |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 stick | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stick | det |
| 13 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Hlakanyana's mother | something | the pot | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | strike | participle | Hlakanyana's mother not said here | with a stick | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stick=Theme |
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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