Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 41
“Ntengu, ntengu, Chips, return to your places, Chips, return to your places, Chips, be fast.”
Who acts: Ntengu ntengu · What happens: return, be
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 (Ntengu ntengu), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 return | punct |
| 2 | Ntengu | Ntengu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ntengu | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ntengu | punct |
| 4 | ntengu | ntengu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 return | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Chips | punct |
| 6 | Chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ntengu | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ntengu | punct |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 places | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 places | nmod:poss |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 return | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Chips | punct |
| 13 | Chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 places | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 return | punct |
| 15 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 return | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 places | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 places | nmod:poss |
| 18 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 return | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Chips | punct |
| 20 | Chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 places | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fast | punct |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fast | cop |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 return | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 return | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return in a quote | infinitive | Ntengu ntengu and Chips | to your places and Chips result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | ||||
| 2 | return in a quote | infinitive | to your places and Chips result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | Ntengu ntengu and Chips not said here | fast property | tree rules |
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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