Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 24
The chief was astonished to hear this child calling him father.
Who acts: chief, child · What happens: be, hear, call · To what, where: child, face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, child), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | cop |
| 4 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 astonished | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obj |
| 9 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 child | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 calling | obj |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 calling | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the chief | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | this child | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | this child not said here | face | father obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme father=Result |
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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