Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 28
Soon after this, Demane, who had taken nothing that day but a swarm of bees, returned and found his sister gone.
Who acts: Demane · What happens: take, return, find · To what, where: nothing, sister gone
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Demane), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 returned | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Soon | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 5 | Demane | Demane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 taken | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 Demane | acl |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 taken | obj |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 swarm | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 swarm | det |
| 15 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bees | case |
| 17 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 swarm | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Demane | punct |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 returned | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 gone | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gone | compound |
| 24 | gone | gone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | Demane | nothing that day a swarm of bees | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Demane | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Demane not said here | cave's sister gone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gone=Topic |
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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