Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 31

You will hear a dancing of people, a roaring of wild beasts, and a barking of dogs in your mother’s stomach.

Who acts: You, wild beasts · What happens: hear, dance, roar · To what, where: dancing, stomach, people

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 (You, wild beasts), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dancing	det
5	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dancing	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 roaring	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 roaring	det
10	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dancing	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 beasts	case
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beasts	amod
13	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 roaring	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 barking	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 barking	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 barking	det
17	barking	barking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 dogs	case
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 barking	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 stomach	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stomach	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 mother	case
24	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	future	You	a dancing of people and a roaring of wild beasts	your mother's stomach	a barking of dogs obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dancing=Stimulus
2	dance			people			nom dancing «act transitive»: of=patient
3	roar		wild beasts				nom roaring «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 31