Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 43
This happened three times; but Nomagoda, who was very angry, caught the bird and swallowed it.
Who acts: This, Nomagoda · What happens: happen, be, catch, swallow · To what, where: bird, chip
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 times | nummod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 caught | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 caught | cc |
| 7 | Nomagoda | Nomagoda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 angry | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 angry | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 angry | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 angry | advmod |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Nomagoda | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nomagoda | punct |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 swallowed | cc |
| 18 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 caught | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 swallowed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | This | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Nomagoda | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | Nomagoda | the bird | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swallow | past | Nomagoda not said here | chip | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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