Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 5
In hunting she learned to be very swift of foot, and could run so fast that nothing she pursued could escape from her.
Who acts: woman, nothing · What happens: learn, be, run, pursue, escape · To what, where: hunting, swift · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, nothing), 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 | _ | 2 hunting | case |
| 2 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 swift | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 swift | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 swift | advmod |
| 8 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swift | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 run | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 run | aux |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learned | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 fast | advmod |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 run | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 escape | mark |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 escape | nsubj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pursued | nsubj |
| 20 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 escape | aux |
| 22 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 run | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 escape | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | woman | hunting | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | swift | of foot | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | could | woman not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pursue | past | woman | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | escape | could | nothing | from woman | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from she=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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