Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 34
When the one who had compassion made known what was about to be done, Ironside was present and heard what was told.
Who acts: one, compassion, Ironside · What happens: have, make, know, be, do, hear · To what, where: compassion · 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 (one, compassion, Ironside), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 When | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 6 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 compassion | acl |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 made | xcomp |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 about | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 about | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 known | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 done | aux:pass |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 about | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 present | punct |
| 16 | Ironside | Ironside | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 present | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 present | cop |
| 18 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 about | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heard | cc |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 present | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 told | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 told | aux:pass |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 heard | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the one | compassion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | compassion not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | participle | compassion not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | what nsubj; about property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | Ironside | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hear | past | Ironside not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | what nsubj:pass | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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