Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 6
So she asked her cousin to return with her to get it.
Who acts: number, cousin · What happens: ask, return, get · To what, where: cousin
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 (number, cousin), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 return | mark |
| 7 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 return | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 return | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | number | number's cousin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent cousin=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | number's cousin not said here | with number | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | number's cousin not said here | cousin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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