Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 65
The hare took the tail of the inkalimeva and ate it, all except a little piece which he hid in the fence.
Who acts: hare, little piece · What happens: take, eat, hide · To what, where: tail, club, fence
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, little piece), 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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tail | det |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 inkalimeva | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 inkalimeva | det |
| 8 | inkalimeva | inkalimeva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tail | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ate | cc |
| 10 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ate | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 piece | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 piece | nsubj |
| 14 | except | except | ADP | _ | 17 piece | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 piece | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 piece | amod |
| 17 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hid | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hid | nsubj |
| 20 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 piece | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fence | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fence | det |
| 23 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hid | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the hare | the tail of the inkalimeva | a little piece obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument tail=Theme piece=Destination | |||
| 2 | eat | past | the hare not said here | club | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | a little piece | the fence | hare nsubj | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fence=Location |
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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