Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 21

Thus if he is an antelope he simply runs, but if he is a lion he stands and fights.

Who acts: animal · What happens: be, run, stand · To what, where: antelope, lion

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	9 runs	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 antelope	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 antelope	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 antelope	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 antelope	det
6	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 runs	advcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 runs	nsubj
8	simply	simply	ADV	_	9 runs	advmod
9	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stands	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 stands	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 lion	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lion	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lion	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lion	det
16	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stands	advcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stands	nsubj
18	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 runs	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fights	cc
20	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stands	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 runs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	animal	a antelope		tree rules
2	run	present	animal		simply, thus property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	animal	a lion		tree rules
4	stand	present	animal		fights conj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 21