Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 6
The hare told their names, upon which the animal swallowed them entire.
Who acts: hare, animal, animals · What happens: tell, swallow, name · To what, where: names · 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 (hare, animal, animals), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 names | nmod:poss |
| 5 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swallowed | punct |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 swallowed | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 animal | det |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swallowed | nsubj |
| 11 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 swallowed | obj |
| 13 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 swallowed | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the hare | animals's names | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | swallow | past | the animal | names = name | which obl; entire property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | name | animals = animal | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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