Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk. I., sentence 161
The young man said: “You thought we would die when you hung us in the tree.”
Who acts: young man, You, we · What happens: say, think, die, hang · To what, where: us, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young man, You, 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 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 die | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 die | aux |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 hung | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hung | nsubj |
| 14 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | advcl |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hung | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hung | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the young man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | You | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | would | we | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | hang in a quote | past | you | us | the tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme in tree=Destination |
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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