Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 5
Among the animals was one terrible monster, which called to the hare, and demanded to know what children those were.
Who acts: one terrible monster, children · What happens: be, call, demand, know · To what, where: one terrible monster, hare · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one terrible monster, children), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 animals | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 animals | det |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 monster | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 monster | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 monster | nummod |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 monster | amod |
| 7 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 monster | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hare | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hare | det |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 demanded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 demanded | cc |
| 16 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 know | mark |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 demanded | xcomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 were | obj |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 were | nsubj |
| 21 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 children | det |
| 22 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 monster | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | one terrible monster | among the animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past | one terrible monster | the hare | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hare=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | past | one terrible monster not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | one terrible monster not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be | past | that children | what obj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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