Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 49
Ironside took his sister home to her mother, who received her with the greatest joy, never having forgotten her during that long time.
Who acts: Ironside, mother · What happens: take, receive, not forget · To what, where: sister
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, mother), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | iobj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mother | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 received | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 received | nsubj |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 received | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 joy | det |
| 15 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 joy | amod |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forgotten | punct |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 forgotten | advmod |
| 19 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 forgotten | aux |
| 20 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 took | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 forgotten | obj |
| 22 | during | during | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 time | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forgotten | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ironside | Ironside's sister | to sister's mother; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sister=Theme to mother=Destination | |||
| 2 | receive | past | sister's mother | sister | with the greatest joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | not forget | gerund · perfect | Ironside not said here | sister | time | 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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