The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 6

The Kaffirs of South Africa tell them, and the modern Greeks, just as the old Egyptians did, when Moses had not been many years rescued out of the bulrushes.

Who acts: Kaffirs, old Egyptians, Moses · What happens: tell, do, not be, rescue · To what, where: modern Greeks, tales, many years, bulrushes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaffirs, old Egyptians, Moses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Kaffirs	det
2	Kaffirs	kaffir	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Africa	case
4	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Africa	compound
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Kaffirs	nmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Greeks	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Greeks	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Greeks	det
11	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Greeks	amod
12	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 did	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	19 did	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 did	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Egyptians	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Egyptians	amod
18	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rescued	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 rescued	advmod
22	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 rescued	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 rescued	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 years	advmod
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 years	cop
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 years	amod
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rescued	obl:unmarked
28	rescued	rescue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 did	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 bulrushes	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 bulrushes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bulrushes	det
32	bulrushes	bulrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rescued	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Kaffirs of South Africa	the modern Greeks	tales = tale		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	do	past	the old Egyptians				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	participle		many years			tree rules
4	rescue	past	Moses			the bulrushes	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent out bulrush=Source

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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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