Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 42
Then it said: “I did not think you could run so fast, but let us try again.”
Who acts: race, you, us · What happens: say, not think, run, let, try · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (race, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 think | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 think | advmod |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 run | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | aux |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 think | ccomp |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 fast | advmod |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 run | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 think | parataxis |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 try | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | race | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other in a quote | past · do-support | race | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run in a quote | could | you | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | try in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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