Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 39
Ironside and his companions, having two legs, could walk much quicker than the cannibals, and soon they were on the other side of the large river.
Who acts: Ironside, cannibals · What happens: have, walk, be · To what, where: two legs, other side
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, 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 | Ironside | ironside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 companions | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 companions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ironside | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 having | punct |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Ironside | conj |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 legs | nummod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 having | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ironside | punct |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 walk | aux |
| 11 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 quicker | advmod |
| 13 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 walk | advcl |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 cannibals | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cannibals | det |
| 16 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 quicker | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 side | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 side | cc |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 side | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 side | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 side | cop |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 side | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 side | amod |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walk | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 river | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 river | det |
| 28 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 river | amod |
| 29 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 side | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Ironside and Ironside's companions not said here | two legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | walk | could | Ironside and Ironside's companions | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | cannibals = cannibal | the other side | of the large river; soon property | tree rules |
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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