Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 6
Her brother, who remained at home when she left, had two daughters, whom he did not treat very kindly.
Who acts: brother, woman · What happens: remain, leave, have, not treat · To what, where: home, two daughters
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 (brother, woman), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 left | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 left | nsubj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remained | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remained | conj |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 daughters | nummod |
| 14 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 treat | punct |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 treat | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 treat | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 treat | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 treat | advmod |
| 20 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 daughters | acl:relcl |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 kindly | advmod |
| 22 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 20 treat | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | woman's brother | home | who nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 2 | leave | past | woman | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | woman's brother not said here | two daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not treat | past · do-support | brother | two daughters | kindly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient |
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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