Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 15
The other people said: “We also are hungry, give us to eat.”
Who acts: other people, We · What happens: say, be, give, eat · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (other people, We), 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 | 3 people | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 hungry | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hungry | punct |
| 7 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hungry | nsubj |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 hungry | advmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hungry | cop |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hungry | parataxis |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the other people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | We | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | 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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