Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 30
The men went and skinned the cannibal, when a great number of people came out of him also.
Who acts: men, great number · What happens: go, skin, come out · To what, where: cannibal, man
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 (men, great number), 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 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 skinned | cc |
| 5 | skinned | skin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cannibal | det |
| 7 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skinned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 came | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 number | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 number | amod |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 number | nmod |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the men | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | skin | past | the men not said here | the cannibal | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cannibal=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come out | past | a great number of people | man | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
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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