Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 59
The hare proposed that they should fasten each other’s tails, and the inkalimeva agreed.
Who acts: hare, animals, inkalimeva · What happens: propose, fasten, agree · To what, where: tails
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, animals, inkalimeva), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proposed | nsubj |
| 3 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 fasten | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fasten | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fasten | aux |
| 7 | fasten | fasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 proposed | ccomp |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tails | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 other | case |
| 11 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fasten | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 agreed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 agreed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 inkalimeva | det |
| 15 | inkalimeva | inkalimeva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 agreed | nsubj |
| 16 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 proposed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past | the hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fasten | should | animals = animal | each other's tails | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | the inkalimeva | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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