Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 8
Then she asked another girl, and another, but one and all refused to go back.
Who acts: number · What happens: ask, refuse, not go back · To what, where: girl, one
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), 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 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 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 another | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 another | cc |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 asked | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 refused | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 refused | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 refused | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 one | cc |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 refused | advmod |
| 14 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 refused | xcomp |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | number | another girl | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient | |||
| 2 | refuse | past | number not said here | one | all property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | not go back | to-infinitive | number not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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