Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 3
Their mother was a cannibal, but not their father.
Who acts: mother · What happens: be · To what, where: cannibal
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), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cannibal | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cannibal | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cannibal | det |
| 5 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 father | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 father | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 father | advmod |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cannibal | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cannibal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | children's mother | a cannibal but children's father | children's father conj | tree rules |
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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