Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 36
When Nomagoda awoke, she took the axe and went to kill them, but the axe fell on the blocks of wood.
Who acts: Nomagoda, axe · What happens: awake, take, go, kill, fall · To what, where: axe, children, blocks
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 (Nomagoda, axe), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | Nomagoda | Nomagoda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 axe | det |
| 8 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 axe | det |
| 17 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 blocks | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blocks | det |
| 21 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fell | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blocks | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Nomagoda | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Nomagoda | the axe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Nomagoda not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | Nomagoda not said here | children = child | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | the axe | the blocks of wood | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on block=Location |
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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