Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 46
Another party then came and asked where their companions were.
Who acts: party, companions · What happens: come, ask, be · 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 (party, companions), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 party | det |
| 2 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 asked | cc |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 were | advmod |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 companions | nmod:poss |
| 9 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | another party | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | another party not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | past | cannibals's companions | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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