Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 22
By this time the woman had succeeded in cutting a hole through the chief’s side, and came forth, followed by her children.
What happens: succeed, cut, come, follow · To what, where: woman, hole, side
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: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 succeeded | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 succeeded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 succeeded | aux |
| 7 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 cutting | mark |
| 9 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 succeeded | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hole | det |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cutting | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 chief | case |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cutting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 succeeded | conj |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 followed | punct |
| 22 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 came | advcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 children | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 children | nmod:poss |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 followed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past · perfect · passive | the woman | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | gerund | a hole | the chief's side | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | ||||
| 3 | come | past | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | follow | participle | by woman's children | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by child=Location |
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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