Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 68
They asked the hare for the tail, which should be kept for the chief.
Who acts: animals · What happens: ask, keep · To what, where: hare, tail
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), 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 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 tail | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tail | det |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 kept | obj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 kept | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 kept | aux:pass |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tail | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 chief | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chief | det |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | animals = animal | the hare | for the tail | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hare=Recipient | |||
| 2 | keep | should · passive | the tail | for the chief | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: which=Theme |
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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