Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 71

They began to search, and at length they found a piece of the tail in the fence.

Who acts: tails · What happens: begin, search, find · To what, where: piece, length

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 (tails), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 search	mark
4	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 length	case
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 piece	det
12	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tail	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tail	det
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 piece	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 fence	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fence	det
18	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	tails = tail				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	search	to-infinitive	tails = tail not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	tails = tail	a piece of the tail	length	in the fence	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent piece=Theme at length=Asset

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 71