Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 14
She then made a fire and cooked the meat, and the children ate.
Who acts: woman, children · What happens: make, cook, eat · To what, where: fire, meat
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, children), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cooked | cc |
| 7 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meat | det |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ate | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ate | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ate | nsubj |
| 14 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | woman | a fire | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | |||
| 2 | cook | past | woman not said here | the meat | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | the children | 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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