Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 32
The next day they all went to hunt, and Ironside killed more game than the others, upon which they became envious of him.
Who acts: words, Ironside · What happens: go, hunt, kill, become · To what, where: more game
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Ironside), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 went | advmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hunt | mark |
| 8 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 killed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 killed | cc |
| 11 | Ironside | Ironside | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 game | amod |
| 14 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | obj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 others | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 others | det |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 killed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 became | punct |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 became | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 became | nsubj |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 killed | conj |
| 23 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 became | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 envious | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | words = word | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | words = word not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill | past | Ironside | more game | than the others | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | |||
| 4 | become | past | words = word | which obl; envious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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