Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 14
The girl answered: “Go away, you cannibal; your voice is hoarse, you are not my brother.”
Who acts: girl, you, voice · What happens: answer, go away, cannibal, be, not be · To what, where: brother · 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 (girl, you, voice), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 6 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 Go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cannibal | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 cannibal | nsubj |
| 10 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Go | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hoarse | punct |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 voice | nmod:poss |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hoarse | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hoarse | cop |
| 15 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Go | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brother | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 brother | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 brother | advmod |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hoarse | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go away in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cannibal in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | your voice | hoarse property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is a in a quote | present | you | my brother | my nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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