Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 17
Lion then went to Little Jackal’s house, but he could not get up the rock to it.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: go, not get up · To what, where: house, rock
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 (Lion), 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 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Jackal | amod |
| 6 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Jackal | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 get | advmod |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 get | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rock | det |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Lion | Little Jackal's house | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not get up | could | Lion | the rock | rock | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus |
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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