Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 88
This story terminates so abruptly that I have little doubt about its being merely a fragment.
Who acts: story, I, little doubt · What happens: terminate, have, be · To what, where: little doubt, fragment
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 (story, I, little doubt), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 terminates | nsubj |
| 3 | terminates | terminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 abruptly | advmod |
| 5 | abruptly | abruptly | ADV | _ | 3 terminates | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 terminates | advcl |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 doubt | amod |
| 10 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 16 fragment | mark |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fragment | nmod:poss |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 fragment | cop |
| 14 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 16 fragment | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fragment | det |
| 16 | fragment | fragment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doubt | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 terminates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | terminate | present | this story | abruptly property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | little doubt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | little doubt not said here | story's fragment | story nmod:poss; merely property | tree rules |
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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