Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 38
Then the tufts of hair all answered in her voice, and the seekers became confused.
Who acts: tufts, seekers · What happens: answer, become · To what, where: voice
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 (tufts, seekers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 answered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tufts | det |
| 3 | tufts | tuft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hair | case |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tufts | nmod |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 answered | advmod |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 voice | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 voice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 seekers | det |
| 14 | seekers | seeker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 16 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the tufts of hair | child's voice | then | all property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | become | past | the seekers | confused property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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