Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 1
There was once a woman who had occasion to leave her home for a short time, and who left her children in charge of a hare.
Who acts: woman, occasion · What happens: be, have, leave, charge · To what, where: occasion, home, children, charge, hare
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, occasion), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 woman | acl:relcl |
| 8 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 leave | mark |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 left | nsubj |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 children | nmod:poss |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 left | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 charge | case |
| 24 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hare | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hare | det |
| 27 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 charge | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a woman | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | a woman | occasion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | occasion not said here | woman's home | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | past | woman's children | charge of a hare | who nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme in charge=Location | |||
| 5 | charge | a hare | nom charge «act transitive»: of=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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