Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 3
It is capable of indefinite extension by the narrator, but the tricks of Little Jackal are always very silly ones.
Who acts: story, tricks · What happens: be, trick · To what, where: silly ones, Little Jackal
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 (story, tricks), 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 | 3 capable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 capable | cop |
| 3 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 extension | case |
| 5 | indefinite | indefinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 extension | amod |
| 6 | extension | extension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 capable | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 narrator | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 narrator | det |
| 9 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 extension | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ones | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 ones | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tricks | det |
| 13 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ones | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Jackal | case |
| 15 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Jackal | amod |
| 16 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 tricks | nmod |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ones | cop |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 ones | advmod |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 silly | advmod |
| 20 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ones | amod |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 capable | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 capable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | story | of indefinite extension by the narrator; capable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the tricks of Little Jackal | silly ones | always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | trick | Little Jackal | nom trick «act transitive»: of=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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