Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 40
The bees swarmed out and stung his head, particularly his eyes, so that he could not see.
Who acts: bees, Zim · What happens: swarm out, sting, not see · To what, where: head
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 (bees, Zim), 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 bees | det |
| 2 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stung | nsubj |
| 3 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stung | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 swarmed | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stung | cc |
| 6 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stung | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eyes | punct |
| 10 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 12 eyes | advmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stung | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 see | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 see | advmod |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stung | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swarm out | participle | the bees not said here | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sting | past | the bees | Zim's head | Zim's eyes obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus head=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | not see | could | Zim | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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