Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 2

Lion proposed that they should hunt together, on condition that if a small antelope was killed it was to be Little Jackal’s, and if a large one was killed it was to be Lion’s.

Who acts: Lion, they, condition, antelope · What happens: propose, hunt, kill, be · To what, where: small antelope, large one

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, they, condition, antelope), 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	2 proposed	nsubj
2	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 hunt	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hunt	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hunt	aux
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 proposed	ccomp
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 hunt	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 condition	punct
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 condition	case
10	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Jackal	nsubj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 killed	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 killed	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 antelope	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 antelope	amod
15	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 killed	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 killed	aux:pass
17	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 condition	acl:relcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 killed	obj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Jackal	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	23 Jackal	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 Jackal	cop
22	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Jackal	amod
23	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hunt	obl
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Jackal	case
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 killed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 killed	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 killed	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 one	det
29	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 one	amod
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 killed	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 killed	aux:pass
32	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 proposed	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 Lion	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 Lion	cop
35	to	to	PART	_	37 Lion	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 Lion	cop
37	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 killed	obl
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 Lion	case
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	propose	past	Lion			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	should	they		together property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kill a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	condition not said here	a small antelope	condition obj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer it=Result
4	is	past	condition		's Little Jackal	tree rules
5	kill a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a large one		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	is	past	antelope		's Lion	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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 2