Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 31
It leaves at such a time as to arrive at its destination after dark, and endeavours to reach the place without attracting notice.
Who acts: arrangement · What happens: leave, arrive, endeavour, reach, attract · To what, where: destination, place, notice
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrangement), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leaves | nsubj |
| 2 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaves | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 arrive | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 arrive | mark |
| 9 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 leaves | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 destination | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 destination | nmod:poss |
| 12 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrive | obl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 dark | case |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 arrive | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 endeavours | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 endeavours | cc |
| 17 | endeavours | endeavour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaves | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 reach | mark |
| 19 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 endeavours | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reach | obj |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 attracting | mark |
| 23 | attracting | attract | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 reach | advcl |
| 24 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attracting | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | arrangement | time | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | to-infinitive | arrangement not said here | arrangement's destination | after dark | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | endeavour | present | arrangement not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | arrangement not said here | the place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 5 | attract | gerund | arrangement not said here | notice | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Patient |
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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