Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 157
The old woman took him out, and went in the pot for her turn.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: take out, go · To what, where: Hlakanyana, pot
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pot | det |
| 12 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 turn | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 turn | nmod:poss |
| 15 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | the old woman | Hlakanyana | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the old woman not said here | the pot | for village's turn | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pot=Location for turn=Theme |
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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