Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 13
The cannibal went away, but after a little time came back again, and spoke in another tone of voice: “Do let me in, my sister.”
Who acts: cannibal · What happens: go away, come back, speak, let in, intonate · To what, where: tone, me, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cannibal), 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 cannibal | det |
| 2 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoke | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | cc |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tone | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 tone | det |
| 19 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoke | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 voice | case |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tone | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 24 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 let | aux |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 spoke | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 let | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 let | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sister | punct |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sister | nmod:poss |
| 30 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 let | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the cannibal | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come back | past | the cannibal not said here | again; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | another tone of voice | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | let in in a quote | infinitive · do-support | me | my sister obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | intonate | voice | nom tone «communication 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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