Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 57
Lion’s wife said: “I cannot take this, because it should not come here.”
Who acts: wife, shin · What happens: say, not take, not come · To what, where: this · 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 (wife, shin), 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 | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lion | case |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | conj |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lion's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not take in a quote | can | Lion's wife = wife | this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | should | shin | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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