Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 26
The person said to them: “See, the cannibal has eaten the rest of me; take care of yourselves.”
Who acts: person · What happens: say, see, eat, take · To what, where: children, cannibal, care · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (person), 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 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 See | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 See | punct |
| 8 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eaten | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cannibal | det |
| 11 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eaten | aux |
| 13 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 See | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rest | det |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eaten | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 rest | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 See | conj |
| 20 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 yourselves | case |
| 22 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 take | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 See | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the person | children = child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the cannibal | the rest of me obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | care | of children = child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of yourselves=Initial_Location |
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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