Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 18

He lay down and rolled in the mud, but that did not help him, and at last he went and put his head in the kraal fence, and died.

Who acts: hare, that · What happens: lie down, roll, not help, go, put, die · To what, where: mud, hare, last, head, kraal fence

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 (hare, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rolled	cc
5	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lay	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mud	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mud	det
8	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 help	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 help	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 help	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 help	advmod
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lay	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 help	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 went	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 fence	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fence	det
28	kraal	kraal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fence	compound
29	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 died	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 died	cc
32	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	hare				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roll	participle	hare not said here			the mud		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory
3	not help	past · do-support	that		hare			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	go	past	hare			last		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5	put	past	hare not said here	hare's head		the kraal fence		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in fence=Destination
6	die	past	hare not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 18

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Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 18