Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 6
But she was wayward, and one day she took some buffalo meat and put it on a fire to roast.
Who acts: girl, some · What happens: be, take, buffalo, put, roast · To what, where: meat, fire
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 (girl, some), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 wayward | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wayward | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wayward | cop |
| 4 | wayward | wayward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wayward | parataxis |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 buffalo | nsubj |
| 12 | buffalo | buffalo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | parataxis |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buffalo | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 buffalo | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 roast | mark |
| 21 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 put | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wayward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl | wayward property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | girl | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | buffalo | present | some | meat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | some not said here | meat | a fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 5 | roast | to-infinitive | some not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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