🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 27

When she saw them, she said: “My children, I am very sorry that you are here, because I must eat people.”

Who acts: mother, children, you · What happens: see, say, be, eat · To what, where: children, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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