Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 42

The girl replied: “She will not listen to anything now, because she is in want of meat.”

Who acts: girl · What happens: reply, not listen, be · 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 (girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 listen	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 listen	punct
6	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 listen	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 listen	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 listen	advmod
9	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 anything	case
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 listen	obl
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 listen	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
14	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	18 want	case
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 want	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 want	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 want	case
18	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 listen	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 meat	case
20	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 want	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 listen	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the girl			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not listen in a quote	future	girl	now	to anything	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to anything=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	girl		because want; of meat	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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 42