Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 52
Thus the children were delivered, and their father was so glad to get them back again that he forgave them for breaking the pot and running away.
Who acts: father · What happens: deliver, be, get, forgive, break, run away · To what, where: children, pot
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 (father), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 delivered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delivered | aux:pass |
| 5 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glad | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glad | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glad | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glad | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 glad | advmod |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 delivered | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glad | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 again | advmod |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 forgave | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 forgave | nsubj |
| 20 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 forgave | obj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 breaking | mark |
| 23 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 forgave | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pot | det |
| 25 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 breaking | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 running | cc |
| 27 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 breaking | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 running | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past · passive | the children | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | children's father | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | children's father not said here | children = child | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | forgive | past | father | children = child | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break | gerund | father not said here | the pot | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Patient | ||||
| 6 | run away | gerund | father not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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