Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 33
This was shortly before the cannibals agreed to kill and eat the daughter of their chief.
Who acts: This, cannibals · What happens: be, agree, kill, eat · To what, where: daughter
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 (This, cannibals), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 was | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 agreed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cannibals | det |
| 6 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 agreed | nsubj |
| 7 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 kill | mark |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 agreed | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 eat | cc |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 kill | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 daughter | det |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eat | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 chief | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 chief | nmod:poss |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | This | shortly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | the cannibals | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the cannibals not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | the cannibals not said here | the daughter of cannibals's chief | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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