Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 69
My husband at home is very hungry; I want to go and cook food for him.”
Who acts: husband, I · What happens: be, want, go, cook · To what, where: food
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 (husband, I), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hungry | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 home | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 husband | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 hungry | advmod |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 want | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cook | cc |
| 14 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cook | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cook | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My husband at home | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cook | infinitive | I not said here | food | for husband | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Material for he=Beneficiary |
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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