Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 45
They sat down to rest, and the porcupine went to sleep.
Who acts: animals, porcupine · What happens: sit down, rest, go, sleep
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 (animals, porcupine), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 rest | mark |
| 5 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sat | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 porcupine | det |
| 9 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sleep | mark |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | animals = animal | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | animals = animal not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the porcupine | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | the porcupine not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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