Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 32
They gave the cannibal a leaky pot to carry the water in, so that he was gone a long time.
Who acts: men, cannibal · What happens: give, carry in, be · To what, where: cannibal, water
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 (men, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 gave | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 6 | leaky | leaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pot | amod |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 carry | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gone | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 gone | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | cop |
| 18 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | men = man | the cannibal | a leaky pot obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cannibal=Recipient pot=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry in | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | the water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | cannibal | time | gone property | 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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