Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 10
On arriving at the pool, a big ugly cannibal with only one leg came up to her, caught her, and put her in his bag.
Who acts: big ugly cannibal · What happens: arrive, come up, catch, put · To what, where: pool, number, bag
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big ugly cannibal), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 arriving | mark |
| 2 | arriving | arrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 pool | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pool | det |
| 5 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arriving | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 arriving | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cannibal | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cannibal | amod |
| 9 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cannibal | amod |
| 10 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 leg | case |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 one | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 leg | nummod |
| 14 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cannibal | nmod |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 caught | punct |
| 20 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 caught | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 bag | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bag | nmod:poss |
| 28 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | gerund | a big ugly cannibal with one leg not said here | the pool | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | a big ugly cannibal with one leg | number | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | a big ugly cannibal with one leg not said here | number | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | past | a big ugly cannibal with one leg not said here | number | cannibal's bag | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bag=Destination |
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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