Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 36
This she did, after which Ironside and his sister and her child left the town in haste.
Who acts: This, Ironside · What happens: do, leave · To what, where: town, haste
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, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 left | obl |
| 7 | Ironside | Ironside | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 left | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sister | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sister | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ironside | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 child | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 child | nmod:poss |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ironside | conj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 haste | case |
| 18 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | sister nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Ironside and Ironside's sister and sister's child | the town | haste | which obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent town=Theme in haste=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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