Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 96
The chief’s sister said: “That is right, but will you not be afraid when you see your husband?”
Who acts: sister, That, you · What happens: say, be, not be, see · To what, where: husband · 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 (sister, That, you), 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 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 chief | case |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
| 8 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 right | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 afraid | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 afraid | nsubj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 afraid | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 afraid | cop |
| 17 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 right | parataxis |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 see | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | advcl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the chief's sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | That | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | future | you | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | you | your husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |
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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