Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 37
The cannibals came, and when they could not find the child they called her loudly by name.
Who acts: cannibals · What happens: come, not find, call · To what, where: child · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cannibals | det |
| 2 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 find | advmod |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 called | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | nsubj |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | obj |
| 16 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 14 called | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 name | case |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the cannibals | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not find | could | cannibals = cannibal | the child | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 3 | call | past | cannibals = cannibal | child | by name; loudly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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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