Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Wonderful Horns., sentence 10
After satisfying his hunger, he struck the left horn, and the rest of the food went in again.
Who acts: boy, rest · What happens: satisfy, strike, go in, hunger · To what, where: hunger, left horn
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Wonderful Horns.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, rest), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 satisfying | mark |
| 2 | satisfying | satisfy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 struck | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 satisfying | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 satisfying | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 struck | nsubj |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horn | det |
| 9 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horn | amod |
| 10 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rest | det |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 food | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 food | det |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rest | nmod |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 struck | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | gerund | boy not said here | boy's hunger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | boy | the left horn | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go in | past | the rest of the food | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hunger | boy | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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