Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 40

Little Jackal wanted to go too, but there was a law made that no one should be present unless he had horns.

Who acts: Little Jackal, law, one, Jackal · What happens: want, go, be, have · To what, where: horns

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 (Little Jackal, law, one, 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jackal	amod
2	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 law	det
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 present	mark
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 present	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 present	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 present	cop
19	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 made	xcomp
20	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 present	advcl
23	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	Little Jackal			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Little Jackal not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	a law		make property	tree rules
4	is	should	no one		present property	tree rules
5	have a condition, not said to happen	past	Jackal	horns		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient

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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 40