Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 38
They found it asleep, and shot it with their arrows in both eyes.
Who acts: glutton · What happens: find, shoot · To what, where: direction, eyes
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 (glutton), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 found | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shot | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shot | cc |
| 7 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shot | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 arrows | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shot | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 eyes | det |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shot | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | glutton | direction | asleep property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | shoot | past | direction | both eyes | with glutton's arrows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in eye=Destination |
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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