Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 15
After this, the woman set a trap, and succeeded in catching a buffalo, but she could not skin it.
Who acts: woman · What happens: set, succeed, catch, not skin · To what, where: trap, buffalo
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Glutton.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 set | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 trap | det |
| 8 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 succeeded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 succeeded | cc |
| 11 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 catching | mark |
| 13 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 succeeded | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 buffalo | det |
| 15 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 catching | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 skin | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 skin | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 skin | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 skin | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 skin | advmod |
| 21 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 skin | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the woman | a trap | after this | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient trap=Result | |||
| 2 | succeed | past | the woman not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | catch | gerund | the woman not said here | a buffalo | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not skin | could | woman | buffalo nsubj | tree rules |
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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