Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 42
The cannibal came back with his friends, and when the others saw there was no one in the hut, they killed and ate him.
Who acts: cannibal, others, one · What happens: come back, see, be, kill, eat · To what, where: cannibal · 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 (cannibal, others, one), 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 cannibal | det |
| 2 | cannibal | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 friends | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 others | det |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hut | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hut | det |
| 20 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 killed | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 killed | nsubj |
| 23 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ate | cc |
| 25 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 killed | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ate | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the cannibal | with cannibal's friends | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the others | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no one in the hut | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | others = other | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | eat | past | others = other not said here | cannibal | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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