Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Kenkebe., sentence 79
He ran one way and the eland ran after him, then he ran another way, and still the eland chased him.
Who acts: Kenkebe, eland · What happens: run, chase · To what, where: one way, way, 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 (Kenkebe, eland), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 way | nummod |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eland | det |
| 7 | eland | eland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 ran | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 chased | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 chased | cc |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 chased | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 eland | det |
| 21 | eland | eland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chased | nsubj |
| 22 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 chased | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Kenkebe | one way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the eland | after Kenkebe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Kenkebe | another way | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | chase | past | the eland | Kenkebe | still | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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