Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 37
When the cannibal came back he complained of the leaky pot, but they gave him plenty of meat to satisfy him, so he picked up his bag and went away.
Who acts: cannibal, snakes · What happens: come back, complain, give, satisfy, pick up, go away · To what, where: plenty, cannibal, 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 (cannibal, snakes), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cannibal | det |
| 3 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 complained | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 complained | nsubj |
| 7 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pot | det |
| 10 | leaky | leaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pot | amod |
| 11 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 complained | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 complained | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 meat | case |
| 19 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plenty | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 satisfy | mark |
| 21 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 gave | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 satisfy | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 picked | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 picked | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 picked | nsubj |
| 26 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 complained | parataxis |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 picked | compound:prt |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bag | nmod:poss |
| 29 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 picked | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 picked | conj |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the cannibal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | complain speech: other | past | cannibal | of the leaky pot | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past | snakes = snake | plenty of meat | cannibal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient plenty=Theme | |||
| 4 | satisfy | to-infinitive | snakes = snake not said here | cannibal | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | pick up | past | cannibal | cannibal's bag | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go away | past | cannibal not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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