Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 154
She did not recognise her children, but they knew her and gave her food.
Who acts: mother, children · What happens: not recognise, know, give · To what, where: children, mother, food
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, 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 | 4 recognise | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recognise | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 recognise | advmod |
| 4 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 children | nmod:poss |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 recognise | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 knew | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recognise | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knew | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recognise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not recognise | past · do-support | mother | mother's children | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | past | children = child | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past | children = child not said here | food | mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient food=Theme |
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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