Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 39
He said the same words again, and then went out for the purpose of calling his friends to come to the feast.
Who acts: thing · What happens: say, go out, call, come · To what, where: same words, friends, feast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 went | advmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 purpose | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 purpose | det |
| 14 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 calling | mark |
| 16 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friends | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 calling | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 calling | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 feast | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 feast | det |
| 23 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | thing | the same words | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | go out | past | thing not said here | then | for the purpose; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | call | gerund | thing not said here | thing's friends | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | thing not said here | the feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=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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