Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 15
The cannibals saw the advantage of having two legs of equal length, and they became jealous of the woman and her child.
Who acts: cannibals, advantage · What happens: see, have, become · To what, where: advantage, two legs
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cannibals, advantage), 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 cannibals | det |
| 2 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 advantage | det |
| 5 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 having | mark |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 advantage | acl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 legs | nummod |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 having | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 length | case |
| 11 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 length | amod |
| 12 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 legs | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 became | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 became | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 jealous | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 child | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 child | nmod:poss |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 woman | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the cannibals | the advantage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer advantage=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | the advantage not said here | two legs of equal length | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | cannibals = cannibal | jealous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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