Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 78
At once she ran after Kenkebe and tried to stick him with her horns.
Who acts: master · What happens: run, try, stick · To what, where: Kenkebe
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Kenkebe.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 ran | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 Kenkebe | case |
| 6 | Kenkebe | Kenkebe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tried | cc |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stick | mark |
| 10 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stick | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 horns | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horns | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stick | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | master | after Kenkebe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | try | past | master not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stick not said to happen | to-infinitive | master not said here | Kenkebe | with master's horns | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with horn=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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