Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Wonderful Horns., sentence 9
About midday, feeling hungry, he struck the right horn of his ox, and food came out.
Who acts: boy, food · What happens: feel, strike, come out · To what, where: right 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, food), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 2 midday | case |
| 2 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 midday | conj |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feeling | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 midday | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 struck | nsubj |
| 8 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horn | det |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 horn | amod |
| 11 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ox | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ox | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horn | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 struck | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | boy not said here | hungry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | boy | the right horn of boy's ox | about midday | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | |||
| 3 | come out | past | food | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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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