Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children., sentence 2

In one, it is the grandmother of the children who is the cannibal, in another, it is their mother, and in a third it is the husband of their aunt.

Who acts: story, children · What happens: be · To what, where: grandmother, cannibal, mother, another, husband, third

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grandmother	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grandmother	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grandmother	det
7	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	acl:relcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 children	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grandmother	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 cannibal	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cannibal	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cannibal	det
14	cannibal	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 children	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mother	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 another	case
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 mother	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 another	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 mother	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mother	cop
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cannibal	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 husband	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 husband	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 third	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 third	det
27	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 husband	obl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 husband	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 husband	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 husband	det
31	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cannibal	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 aunt	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 aunt	nmod:poss
34	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 husband	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	story	the grandmother		of the children	tree rules
2	is a	present	the children	the cannibal and cannibal's mother and the husband			tree rules
3	is a	present	story	cannibal's mother	another	cannibal nmod:poss	tree rules
4	is a	present	story	the husband	a third	of cannibal's aunt	tree rules

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children., sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children., sentence 2