Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 28
She smelt that children had been in the house, so she went to her son’s house and looked in.
Who acts: Nomagoda, children · What happens: smelt, be, go, look in · To what, where: house
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 (Nomagoda, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smelt | nsubj |
| 2 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 house | mark |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 house | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 house | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 house | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smelt | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smelt | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 son | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 looked | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smelt | past | Nomagoda | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | children | the house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Nomagoda | Nomagoda's son's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look in | past | Nomagoda not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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