Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Wonderful Horns., sentence 18
He spoke to his horn, and food came out, enough to satisfy the owner of the house and himself.
Who acts: boy, food · What happens: speak, come out, satisfy · To what, where: owner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Wonderful Horns.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, food), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 horn | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 enough | punct |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 came | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 satisfy | mark |
| 14 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 enough | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 owner | det |
| 16 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 satisfy | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 owner | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 himself | cc |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 satisfy | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | boy | to boy's horn | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to horn=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | food | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | satisfy | to-infinitive | food not said here | the owner of the house | boy conj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus owner=Experiencer |
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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