Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 32

You will know by that she is sleeping, and you must then rise at once and get away.”

Who acts: You, mother · What happens: know, sleep, rise, get away · 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 (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 sleeping	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sleeping	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sleeping	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sleeping	aux
8	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 know	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rise	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rise	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 rise	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 rise	aux
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 rise	advmod
14	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 rise	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 get	cc
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 rise	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 get	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	know	future	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sleep	present · progressive	mother			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rise	must	you	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location
4	get away	infinitive	you not said here		away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=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 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 32