Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 71
She fell down and cried out: “My master, I am in a hurry to go home.
Who acts: mother · What happens: fall down, cry out, be, go · To what, where: master, hurry · 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 (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 fell | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cried | cc |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cried | compound:prt |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 master | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 master | punct |
| 9 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 master | nmod:poss |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurry | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hurry | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hurry | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hurry | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hurry | det |
| 16 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 master | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hurry | acl |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | mother | My master | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | mother not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | mother | My master not said here | a hurry | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | mother not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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