Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 49
The girl fell down, and the cannibal caught her and swallowed her.
Who acts: girl, cannibal · What happens: fall down, catch, swallow · To what, where: girl
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 caught | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cannibal | det |
| 8 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | parataxis |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swallowed | cc |
| 12 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 swallowed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | the girl | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | the cannibal | girl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swallow | past | the cannibal not said here | girl | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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