Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 41
So Little Jackal took wax out of a nest of bees, and made horns for himself with it.
Who acts: Little Jackal · What happens: take, make · To what, where: wax, nest, 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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Jackal | amod |
| 3 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 nest | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 nest | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 nest | det |
| 9 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bees | case |
| 11 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nest | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 made | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Little Jackal | wax | a nest of bees | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wax=Theme out nest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | make | past | Little Jackal not said here | horns | for Jackal; with nest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent horn=Material for himself=Beneficiary |
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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