Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 4
He agreed to take charge, and all the others went away.
Who acts: He, others · What happens: agree, take, go away · To what, where: charge
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 (He, others), 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 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | xcomp |
| 5 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 others | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 others | det |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | He | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | He not said here | charge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go away | past | all others | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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