Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 58
Little Jackal thereupon struck Lion’s wife in the face, and went back to the place where the ox was killed.
Who acts: Little Jackal · What happens: strike, go back, kill · To what, where: wife, face, ox
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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Jackal | amod |
| 2 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 struck | advmod |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Lion | case |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 face | det |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 killed | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ox | det |
| 20 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 killed | aux:pass |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 place | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Little Jackal | Lion's wife | the face | thereupon property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wife=Instrument | ||
| 2 | go back | past | Little Jackal not said here | to the place result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | the ox | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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