Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 26
She went to the corner where they were, and took the skins away.
Who acts: mother, children · What happens: go, be, take away · To what, where: corner, skins
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, children), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 corner | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 corner | det |
| 5 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 were | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 were | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 corner | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skins | det |
| 13 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 took | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | mother | the corner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | children = child | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take away | past | mother not said here | the skins | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
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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