Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 60
“I am a pretty bird of the valley, You come to make a disturbance at my place.”
Who acts: bird, You · What happens: be, come, make · To what, where: pretty bird, disturbance, place
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 (bird, You), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bird | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 valley | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 valley | det |
| 9 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 disturbance | det |
| 16 | disturbance | disturbance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 place | nmod:poss |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the bird = bird | a pretty bird | of the valley | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | a disturbance | my place | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset disturbance=Product |
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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