Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 44
The bees made their home in the stump, but no one could get their honey, because, when any one tried, his hand stuck fast.
Who acts: bees, one, hand · What happens: make, get, try, stick · To what, where: home, stump, honey
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bees, one, hand), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bees | det |
| 2 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 home | nmod:poss |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 stump | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stump | det |
| 8 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | parataxis |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 honey | nmod:poss |
| 16 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tried | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 tried | mark |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tried | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 tried | advmod |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tried | nsubj |
| 23 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stuck | punct |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stuck | nsubj |
| 27 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | advcl |
| 28 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 stuck | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the bees | bees's home | the stump | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Product | |||
| 2 | get | could | no one | bees's honey | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honey=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | try | past | any one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | stick | past | Zim's hand | fast property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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