Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 37
Just remain here while I run round and drive him towards you.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: remain, run, drive · To what, where: Jackal
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 (you, I), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 remain | advmod |
| 2 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 remain | advmod |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 run | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 remain | advcl |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 run | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drive | cc |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drive | obj |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 drive | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remain | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | imperative | you not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | present | I | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | infinitive | I not said here | Jackal | towards you | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme towards you=Trajectory |
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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