Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 39
At another time there was a meeting of the animals, and Lion was the chief at the meeting.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: be · To what, where: meeting, chief
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meeting | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 meeting | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 meeting | det |
| 7 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 animals | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 animals | det |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meeting | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chief | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chief | cc |
| 13 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 chief | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 chief | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meeting | nmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 meeting | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 meeting | det |
| 19 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chief | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 meeting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a meeting | time | of the animals | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Lion | the chief | the meeting | 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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