Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 6

She made inquiries of the neighbours, and some of them told her they had heard the child crying, “I am going away with the birds.”

Who acts: mother, some, inquiries, child, I · What happens: make, tell, hear, cry, go away, inquire · To what, where: inquiries, mother, child, neighbours · 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 (mother, some, inquiries, child), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 neighbours	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 neighbours	det
6	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 inquiries	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 told	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 some	nmod
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
19	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 child	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 heard	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 going	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 birds	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 birds	det
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 going	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	mother	inquiries of the neighbours			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inquiry=Product
2	tell speech: assert	past	some of neighbours		mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hear	past · perfect	inquiries = inquiry	the child			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the child not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go away in a quote	present · progressive	I			with the birds; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with bird=Beneficiary
6	inquire			the neighbours			nom inquiry «cognition transitive»: of=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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 6

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Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 6