Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 35
He said to his sister that she must pluck the hair from her head and scatter it about in different directions.
Who acts: Ironside, sister · What happens: say, pluck, scatter · To what, where: hair, head · 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 sister | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 pluck | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pluck | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pluck | aux |
| 9 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hair | det |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pluck | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pluck | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scatter | cc |
| 16 | scatter | scatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pluck | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 scatter | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 directions | case |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 directions | case |
| 20 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 directions | amod |
| 21 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 scatter | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ironside | to Ironside's sister | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to sister=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pluck | must | sister | the hair | sister's head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Theme from head=Source | |||
| 3 | scatter | infinitive | sister not said here | hair | about different directions | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme about direction=Destination |
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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