Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 31
Come, let us sit down and scratch each other’s heads.”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: come, let, sit down, scratch · To what, where: us, other heads
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sit | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 scratch | cc |
| 8 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sit | conj |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 heads | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heads | amod |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 other | case |
| 12 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 scratch | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit down | infinitive | us not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scratch | infinitive | us not said here | each other heads | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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