Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 40
He sent and called all the other cannibals to come to a feast, and they came expecting to get something nice.
Who acts: cannibal, snakes · What happens: send, call, come, expect, get · To what, where: other cannibals, feast, something · 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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 called | cc |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 cannibals | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cannibals | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cannibals | amod |
| 8 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cannibals | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 feast | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feast | det |
| 13 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 18 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 came | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 expecting | xcomp |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 something | amod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | cannibal | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | call | past | cannibal not said here | all other cannibals | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | cannibal not said here | all other cannibals not said here | a feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | come | past | snakes = snake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | expect | gerund | snakes = snake not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | snakes = snake not said here | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
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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