Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 58
The woman looked at it, and said to herself: “I shall take this bird home to my husband.”
Who acts: woman · What happens: look, say, take · To what, where: woman, bird, husband · 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 (woman), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 herself | case |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 bird | det |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 husband | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 husband | nmod:poss |
| 21 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the woman | at bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the woman not said here | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | shall | the woman = woman | this bird | my husband | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to husband=Destination |
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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