Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 89
There is a story very similar to it, in which a pool of water is guarded by different animals in turn, all of which are deceived by the jackal.
Who acts: story, different animals, jackal · What happens: be, guard, deceive · To what, where: pool, story, all
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, different animals, jackal), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 similar | advmod |
| 6 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 similar | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 guarded | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 guarded | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pool | det |
| 13 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pool | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 guarded | aux:pass |
| 17 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 story | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 animals | case |
| 19 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 animals | amod |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 guarded | obl:agent |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 turn | case |
| 22 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 animals | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 deceived | punct |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 deceived | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 all | nmod |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 deceived | aux:pass |
| 28 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 animals | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 jackal | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 jackal | det |
| 31 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 deceived | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a story | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guard | present · passive | different animals in turn | a pool of water | a story | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | deceive | present · passive | the jackal | all | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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