Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 35
But when he knew how those other girls had deceived him he said they must all die, and so they were killed.
Who acts: cannibal, girls · What happens: know, deceive, say, die, kill · To what, where: chief, other girls, girls · 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, girls), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 knew | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 deceived | advmod |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 girls | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girls | amod |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 deceived | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 deceived | aux |
| 10 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 die | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 die | aux |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 die | advmod |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 killed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 killed | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 killed | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 killed | aux:pass |
| 23 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | cannibal | chief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deceive | past · perfect · passive | that other girls | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | cannibal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | die | must | girls = girl | all property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | kill | past · passive | girls = girl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/14/35/