Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 17

They persuaded him to consent to her being put to death, and then they rejoiced greatly, because she was very fat, and they intended to eat her; but one of them, who had more compassion than the others, told the woman what they were about to do.

Who acts: cannibals, child, one · What happens: persuade, consent, put, rejoice, be, intend · To what, where: chief, child, more compassion, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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, child, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 persuaded	nsubj
2	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 persuaded	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 consent	mark
5	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 persuaded	advcl
6	to	to	SCONJ	_	9 put	mark
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	nsubj:pass
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 put	aux:pass
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 consent	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 death	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rejoiced	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rejoiced	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 rejoiced	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rejoiced	nsubj
16	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 persuaded	parataxis
17	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	16 rejoiced	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fat	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 fat	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fat	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fat	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 fat	advmod
23	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rejoiced	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 intended	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 intended	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 intended	nsubj
27	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rejoiced	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 intended	xcomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eat	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 had	cc
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 had	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 one	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 persuaded	parataxis
39	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 compassion	amod
40	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
41	than	than	ADP	_	43 others	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 others	det
43	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 compassion	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 told	punct
45	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 had	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 woman	det
47	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 told	iobj
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 about	obl
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 about	nsubj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 about	cop
51	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 told	ccomp
52	to	to	PART	_	53 do	mark
53	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 about	xcomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	persuade	past	cannibals = cannibal	chief				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	consent	to-infinitive	cannibals = cannibal not said here					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	put	gerund · passive		child			to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
4	rejoice	past	cannibals = cannibal			then	greatly property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	child				fat property	tree rules
6	intend	past	cannibals = cannibal					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	cannibals = cannibal not said here	child				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
8	have	past	one of cannibals	more compassion			than the others; who nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient
9	tell speech: assert	past	one of cannibals not said here		the woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient
10	is	past	cannibals = cannibal				what obl; about property	tree rules
11	do	to-infinitive	cannibals = cannibal not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 17

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Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 17