Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 8
So he tried to imitate Demane’s voice, and asked to be admitted, singing this song:—
Who acts: door · What happens: try, imitate, ask, admit, sing · To what, where: voice, song · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 tried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 imitate | mark |
| 5 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | Demane | Demane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Demane | case |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 imitate | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 admitted | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 admitted | aux:pass |
| 14 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 singing | punct |
| 16 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 admitted | advcl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 song | det |
| 18 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 singing | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | door | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | imitate not said to happen | to-infinitive | door not said here | Demane's voice | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | door not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | admit speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S» | ||||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | this song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
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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