Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 34

Lion watched for him, and one day, when Little Jackal was out hunting, he came upon him in a place where he could not escape.

Who acts: Lion, Little Jackal · What happens: watch, hunt, come, not escape · To what, where: place

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	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watched	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 day	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hunting	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 hunting	advmod
11	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Jackal	amod
12	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 hunting	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hunting	aux
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 was	compound:prt
15	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 watched	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 watched	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 place	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 place	det
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 escape	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 escape	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 escape	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 escape	advmod
28	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 place	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	Lion		day	for Jackal	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
2	hunt	past · progressive	Little Jackal				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	Lion	a place		upon Jackal	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
4	not escape	could	Lion				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 34