Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 45
There she fell upon her husband, and wanted to cut him with the axe.
Who acts: Hinazinci · What happens: fall, want, cut · To what, where: husband
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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 fell | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 husband | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wanted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wanted | cc |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cut | mark |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cut | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 axe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 axe | det |
| 15 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Hinazinci | there | upon Hinazinci's husband | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon husband=Location | |||
| 2 | want | past | Hinazinci not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cut not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hinazinci not said here | husband | with the axe | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient with axe=Instrument |
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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