Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 44
So she sang her song, and when the cannibal heard it, she ran backwards to her own house.
Who acts: Hinazinci, cannibal · What happens: sing, hear, run · To what, where: song
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 (Hinazinci, cannibal), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sang | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 song | nmod:poss |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sang | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 heard | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cannibal | det |
| 10 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ran | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sang | conj |
| 16 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 15 ran | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 house | amod |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | Hinazinci | Hinazinci's song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the cannibal | song | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Hinazinci | to Hinazinci's own house result; backwards property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | ||||
| 4 | sing | Hinazinci | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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