Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 27
When it was nearly dark, Nomagoda came home again, bringing some animals which she had killed.
Who acts: cannibal, Nomagoda · What happens: be, come, bring, kill · To what, where: animals
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cannibal, Nomagoda), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 dark | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dark | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dark | cop |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 dark | advmod |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | Nomagoda | Nomagoda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dark | advcl |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bringing | punct |
| 12 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 animals | det |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bringing | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 killed | aux |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 animals | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cannibal | dark, nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Nomagoda | again | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring | gerund | Nomagoda not said here | some animals | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination | ||||
| 4 | kill | past · perfect · passive | some animals | Nomagoda nsubj:pass | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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