Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 44
The mother of the twins told them, and they rewarded the boys with a large number of cattle.
Who acts: mother, glutton · What happens: tell, reward · To what, where: glutton, boys · 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 twins | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 twins | det |
| 5 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mother | nmod |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rewarded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rewarded | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rewarded | nsubj |
| 11 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rewarded | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 number | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 number | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 number | amod |
| 17 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rewarded | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cattle | case |
| 19 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 number | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the mother of the twins | glutton | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | reward | past | glutton | the boys | with a large number of cattle | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient with number=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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