Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 5
Lion was very glad, and said to Little Jackal: “I will continue hunting while you go to my house and call my children to carry the meat home.”
Who acts: Lion, Little Jackal · What happens: be, say, continue, hunt, go, call · To what, where: Little Jackal, house, children, meat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 glad | advmod |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Jackal | case |
| 9 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Jackal | amod |
| 10 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 continue | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 continue | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 continue | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 continue | aux |
| 15 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 continue | xcomp |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hunting | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 call | cc |
| 24 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 continue | conj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 children | nmod:poss |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 call | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 carry | mark |
| 28 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 call | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 meat | det |
| 30 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carry | obj |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 carry | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Lion | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Lion not said here | Little Jackal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jackal=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | continue in a quote | future | Lion | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | hunt in a quote | gerund | Lion not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | present | Little Jackal = jackal | my house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | call in a quote | infinitive | Lion not said here | my children | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | carry in a quote | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | the meat | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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