Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 27
Then she said the cannibals would eat him if he went to their town without an introduction.
Who acts: sister, cannibals, river · What happens: say, eat, go · To what, where: river, town · 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 (sister, cannibals, river), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cannibals | det |
| 5 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | aux |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 went | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 town | nmod:poss |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 introduction | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 introduction | det |
| 17 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | sister | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | eat | would | the cannibals | river | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen | past | river | cannibals's town | without a introduction | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location |
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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