Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 33
They lay down, but the man and the children only pretended to go to sleep.
Who acts: dancing, man · What happens: lay down, pretend, go · To what, where: sleep
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 (dancing, man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 lay | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pretended | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 pretended | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pretended | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 children | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 children | det |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 man | conj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 pretended | advmod |
| 12 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pretended | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sleep | case |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | present | dancing | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past | the man and the children | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the man and the children not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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