Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 53
They promised him that they would not kill him, and after a good deal of persuasion he at last agreed to keep the gate.
Who acts: animals, hare · What happens: promise, not kill, agree, keep, deal · To what, where: hare, good deal, gate, persuasion
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, hare), 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 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 promised | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kill | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 kill | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 kill | advmod |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kill | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 deal | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 deal | cc |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 deal | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 persuasion | case |
| 17 | persuasion | persuasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deal | nmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 agreed | nsubj |
| 19 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 21 agreed | mark |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 agreed | amod |
| 21 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 deal | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 keep | mark |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 agreed | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gate | det |
| 25 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 keep | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | animals = animal | hare | a good deal of persuasion parataxis | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | not kill | would | animals = animal | hare | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | hare | a good deal of persuasion not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent deal=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | hare not said here | the gate | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | ||||
| 5 | deal | persuasion | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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