Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 54
When the animals were gone he laid himself down, but he only pretended to be asleep.
Who acts: hare · What happens: go, lay down, pretend, be · To what, where: animals, hare
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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 animals | det |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux:pass |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 laid | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laid | nsubj |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 laid | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 laid | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pretended | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 pretended | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pretended | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 pretended | advmod |
| 14 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laid | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 asleep | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asleep | cop |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pretended | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · passive | the animals | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lay down | past | hare | hare | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result | ||||
| 3 | pretend | past | hare | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | hare not said here | asleep property | tree rules |
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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