Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 43
The other cannibals were so angry when they saw this, that they killed him and made their feast of him.
Who acts: other cannibals, snakes · What happens: be, see, kill, make · To what, where: this, cannibal, feast
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 (other cannibals, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cannibals | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cannibals | amod |
| 3 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | advcl |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 killed | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 killed | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 killed | nsubj |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 killed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 killed | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feast | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 feast | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the other cannibals | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | snakes = snake | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | snakes = snake | cannibal | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | snakes = snake not said here | snakes's feast of cannibal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product |
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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