Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 11
The man called all his friends, and assembled a large company to go with his daughter to the village of the chief.
Who acts: man · What happens: call, assemble, go · To what, where: friends, large company, village · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assembled | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 man | acl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 friends | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friends | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 assembled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 assembled | cc |
| 9 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 company | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 company | amod |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assembled | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 assembled | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 daughter | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 village | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 village | det |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 chief | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chief | det |
| 23 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 village | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the man not said here | man's friends | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | assemble | past | the man | a large company | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent company=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the man not said here | the village of the chief | with man's daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location |
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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