Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 35
After a while they heard a dancing of people, a roaring of wild beasts, and a barking of dogs.
Who acts: man, wild beasts · What happens: hear, dance, roar · To what, where: dancing, 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 (man, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dancing | det |
| 7 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dancing | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 roaring | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 roaring | det |
| 12 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dancing | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 beasts | case |
| 14 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beasts | amod |
| 15 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 roaring | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 barking | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 barking | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 barking | det |
| 19 | barking | barking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 dogs | case |
| 21 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 barking | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | man | a dancing of people and a roaring of wild beasts | while | a barking of dogs conj | 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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