Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 24
He advised the cannibal to go to the village where the men were, and told him there was plenty of meat that day.
Who acts: cannibal, plenty · What happens: advise, go, tell, be · To what, where: cannibal, village · Speech: someone speaks here
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, plenty), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 advised | nsubj |
| 2 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cannibal | det |
| 4 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 advised | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 advised | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 were | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 village | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 advised | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | ccomp |
| 20 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 meat | case |
| 22 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plenty | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meat | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | cannibal | the cannibal | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent cannibal=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | cannibal not said here | cannibal | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | be | past | plenty of meat that day | there | 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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