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Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 29

Ironside went on the hill, and as soon as he came in sight of the town, his sister said: “There is the servant of the wife of the chief of the cannibals.”

Who acts: Ironside, sister, servant · What happens: go, come, say, be, sight · To what, where: hill, sight, 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 (Ironside, sister, servant), 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

nsubjcasedetoblpunctccadvmodadvmodmarknsubjparataxiscaseoblcasedetnmodpunctnmod:possnsubjconjpunctpunctexplccompdetnsubjcasedetnmodcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctpunctrootIronsideNOUNwentVERBonADPtheDEThillNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJasADVsoonADVasSCONJhePRONcameVERBinADPsightNOUNofADPtheDETtownNOUN,PUNCThisPRONsisterNOUNsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTTherePRONisVERBtheDETservantNOUNofADPtheDETwifeNOUNofADPtheDETchiefNOUNofADPtheDETcannibalsNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IronsideironsideNOUNNumber=Sing2 wentnsubj
2wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ononADP_5 hillcase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 hilldet
5hillhillNOUNNumber=Sing2 wentobl
6,,PUNCT_12 camepunct
7andandCCONJ_12 camecc
8asasADV_9 soonadvmod
9soonsoonADVDegree=Pos12 cameadvmod
10asasSCONJ_12 camemark
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 camensubj
12camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wentparataxis
13ininADP_14 sightcase
14sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing12 cameobl
15ofofADP_17 towncase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 towndet
17towntownNOUNNumber=Sing14 sightnmod
18,,PUNCT_21 saidpunct
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 sisternmod:poss
20sistersisterNOUNNumber=Sing21 saidnsubj
21saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 cameconj
22::PUNCT_25 ispunct
23“"PUNCT_25 ispunct
24TheretherePRONPronType=Dem25 isexpl
25isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 saidccomp
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 servantdet
27servantservantNOUNNumber=Sing25 isnsubj
28ofofADP_30 wifecase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 wifedet
30wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing27 servantnmod
31ofofADP_33 chiefcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 chiefdet
33chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing30 wifenmod
34ofofADP_36 cannibalscase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 cannibalsdet
36cannibalscannibalNOUNNumber=Plur33 chiefnmod
37..PUNCT_2 wentpunct
38”"PUNCT_2 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastIronsidethe hillvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on hill=Location
2comepastIronsidesight of the townsoon propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location
3say speech: assertpastriver's sistervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4be in a quotepresentthe servant of the wife of the chief of the cannibalstherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5sightthe townnom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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