Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 8
Shortly the house was filled with all kinds of animals, which made a fire, cooked their food, ate it up, and slept.
Who acts: animals · What happens: fill, make, cook, eat up, sleep · To what, where: house, fire, food
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 (animals), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 5 filled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | aux:pass |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 kinds | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 kinds | det |
| 8 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 filled | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 animals | case |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kinds | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 animals | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cooked | punct |
| 17 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | parataxis |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 food | nmod:poss |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cooked | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ate | punct |
| 21 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cooked | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ate | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 ate | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 slept | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 slept | cc |
| 26 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the house | with all kinds of animals; shortly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with kind=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | make | past | animals | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||||
| 3 | cook | past | animals's food | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient | |||||
| 4 | eat up | past | food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | sleep | past | animals not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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