Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 14
They walked away in the opposite direction from their home, and for two days had nothing but gum to eat.
Who acts: pots, two days · What happens: walk away, have, eat · To what, where: opposite direction, nothing
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pots, two days), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 direction | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 direction | det |
| 6 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 direction | amod |
| 7 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 home | nmod:poss |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 direction | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 days | nummod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 gum | cc |
| 19 | gum | gum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nothing | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nothing | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | past | pots = pot | the opposite direction from pots's home | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | past | two days | nothing gum | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | two days not said here | nothing gum not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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