Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 26
While he was gone for the stone, Little Jackal went far into the hole.
Who acts: Lion, Little Jackal · What happens: be, go · To what, where: hole
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, Little 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | cop |
| 4 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Jackal | amod |
| 10 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | conj |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 hole | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hole | det |
| 15 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Lion | for the stone; gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Little Jackal | the hole | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location |
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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