Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 84
After this the hare went into the forest to get himself some weapons to fight with.
What happens: go, get, fight · To what, where: forest, pot
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: 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 | _ | 4 hare | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hare | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 get | obj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 weapons | det |
| 13 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 get | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fight | mark |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 weapons | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 fight | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the forest | after this hare | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | pot | some weapons obj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary weapon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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