Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 12
The cannibal then took her round to the different villages and made her sing for him.
Who acts: cannibal, number · What happens: take, make, sing · To what, where: number, different villages
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 (cannibal, number), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cannibal | det |
| 2 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 villages | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 villages | det |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 villages | amod |
| 10 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the cannibal | number | the different villages | then | round property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to village=Destination | |
| 2 | make | past | the cannibal not said here | number | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | infinitive | number not said here | for cannibal | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for he=Recipient |
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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