Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 42
I was then called away to perform work of a very different kind, and the publication was necessarily suspended.
Who acts: different kind · What happens: call away, perform, suspend, work · To what, where: I, work, publication
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (different kind), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 called | advmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 perform | mark |
| 7 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 called | advcl |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perform | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kind | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kind | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 different | advmod |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kind | amod |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 work | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 suspended | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 suspended | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 publication | det |
| 17 | publication | publication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 suspended | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 suspended | aux:pass |
| 19 | necessarily | necessarily | ADV | _ | 20 suspended | advmod |
| 20 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 called | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call away speech: assert | past · passive | I | then | away property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | perform | to-infinitive | work of a different kind | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suspend | past · passive | the publication | necessarily property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | work | a different kind | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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