Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 52
Lion said: “I will watch it while you carry the pieces away.”
Who acts: Lion, you · What happens: say, watch, carry away · To what, where: ox, pieces · 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, you), 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 | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 watch | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 watch | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 watch | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 watch | aux |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 watch | obj |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 carry | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 watch | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pieces | det |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carry | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 carry | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 watch | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | watch in a quote | future | Lion | ox | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry away in a quote | present | you | the pieces | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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