Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 42
Then he opened his bag and thought to take the girl out, but found only snakes and toads in it.
Who acts: cannibal · What happens: open, take out, find · To what, where: bag, girl, snakes, thought
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bag | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bag | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 opened | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 take | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 snakes | advmod |
| 17 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 toads | cc |
| 19 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 snakes | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | cannibal | cannibal's bag and thought | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme | |||
| 2 | take out | to-infinitive | cannibal not said here | the girl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | cannibal not said here | snakes and toads | thought | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic |
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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