Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children., sentence 3
One version makes Magoda escape with the children, and introduces a great deal of obscenity.
Who acts: One version, Magoda · What happens: make, escape, introduce, deal · To what, where: Magoda, great deal, obscenity
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 (One version, Magoda), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 version | nummod |
| 2 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Magoda | Magoda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 children | det |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 escape | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 introduces | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 introduces | cc |
| 11 | introduces | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deal | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deal | amod |
| 14 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 introduces | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 obscenity | case |
| 16 | obscenity | obscenity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deal | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | One version | Magoda | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | escape | infinitive | Magoda not said here | with the children | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | introduce | present | One version not said here | a great deal of obscenity | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | ||||
| 4 | deal | obscenity | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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