Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 7
A cannibal smelt the flesh cooking, and went to the cave, but found the door fastened.
Who acts: cannibal smelt, door · What happens: go, find, fasten · To what, where: cave · 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 smelt, door), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 smelt | det |
| 2 | cannibal | cannibal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 smelt | amod |
| 3 | smelt | smelt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cooking | det |
| 5 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cooking | compound |
| 6 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smelt | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fastened | nsubj |
| 18 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a cannibal smelt the flesh cooking | the cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | a cannibal smelt the flesh cooking not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fasten | past | the door | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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