Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 37
She went, but the bees stung her hand, and she called out: “It is biting.”
Who acts: daughter, bees, hand · What happens: go, sting, call out, bite · To what, where: hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (daughter, bees, hand), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stung | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 stung | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bees | det |
| 6 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stung | nsubj |
| 7 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stung | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 called | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 biting | punct |
| 17 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 biting | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 biting | aux |
| 19 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 biting | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 biting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | daughter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sting | past | the bees | daughter's hand | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | past | daughter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bite in a quote | present · progressive | hand | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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