Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 76
The hare remained in the hole for many days, but at length he managed to get out without being caught.
Who acts: hare · What happens: remain, manage, get out, catch · To what, where: hare, hole, 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 managed | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hare | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remained | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 managed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 managed | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 managed | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 managed | nsubj |
| 15 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 managed | xcomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 19 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 caught | mark |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 caught | aux:pass |
| 21 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 get | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | the hare not said here | the hole | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location | |||
| 2 | manage | past | the hare | length | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get out | to-infinitive | the hare not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | catch | gerund · passive | the hare not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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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