Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 36
Their mother advised them not to wander away from the house, saying to them: “The glutton will swallow you.”
Who acts: mother, twins, glutton · What happens: advise, not wander away, say, swallow · To what, where: twins, house, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Glutton.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, twins, glutton), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advised | nsubj |
| 3 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 advised | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wander | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wander | mark |
| 7 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 advised | xcomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 wander | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wander | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saying | punct |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 advised | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saying | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 swallow | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 swallow | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 glutton | det |
| 19 | glutton | glutton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swallow | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 swallow | aux |
| 21 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 advised | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 swallow | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 swallow | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 swallow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | twins's mother | twins = twin | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not wander away not said to happen | to-infinitive | twins = twin not said here | the house | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from house=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | twins's mother not said here | twins = twin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | swallow in a quote | future | the glutton | you | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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