Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 9
Next morning they awoke, and all went out to search for something to eat.
Who acts: animals · What happens: awake, go out, search, eat
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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 awoke | nsubj |
| 4 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 went | advmod |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 search | mark |
| 11 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 something | case |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 search | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 something | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | animals = animal | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | animals = animal not said here | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | search | to-infinitive | animals = animal not said here | for something | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | animals = animal not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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