Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 10
So Little Jackal’s children carried the meat to their home on the top of a high rock.
Who acts: children · What happens: carry · To what, where: meat, top
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Lion and Little Jackal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 carried | advmod |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Jackal | amod |
| 3 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Jackal | case |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 meat | det |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rock | amod |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Little Jackal's children | the meat | the top of a high rock | to children's home | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme to home=Destination |
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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