Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 53
Lion gave him the breast, and said: “Take this to my wife.”
Who acts: Lion · What happens: give, say, take · To what, where: breast, Jackal, this, wife · 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), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 breast | det |
| 5 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 11 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 Take | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Take | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Lion | the breast | Jackal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient breast=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Lion not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | this | my wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme to wife=Destination |
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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