Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 82
After that he whistled a particular tune, and there fell a storm of hail which killed the bushbuck.
Who acts: pot, hail · What happens: whistle, fall, kill, storm · To what, where: particular tune, storm, bushbuck
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 (pot, hail), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 whistled | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 whistled | nsubj |
| 4 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tune | det |
| 6 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tune | amod |
| 7 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whistled | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 fell | expl |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whistled | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 storm | det |
| 13 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hail | case |
| 15 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 storm | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 killed | nsubj |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hail | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bushbuck | det |
| 19 | bushbuck | bushbuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whistled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | past | pot | a particular tune | after that | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic | |||
| 2 | fall | past | pot not said here | a storm of hail | there | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient storm=Result | |||
| 3 | kill | past | hail | the bushbuck | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bushbuck=Theme | ||||
| 4 | storm | hail | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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