Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 25
They went into her house, where they saw a person with only one arm, one side, and one leg.
Who acts: children · What happens: go, see · To what, where: house, person
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 (children), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 arm | case |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 arm | nummod |
| 15 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 person | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 side | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 side | nummod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 person | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leg | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 leg | cc |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 leg | nummod |
| 22 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | children = child | woman's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | children = child | a person and one side | with one arm; one leg obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
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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