Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 7
One day he sent them to the river for water, which they were to carry in two pots.
Who acts: brother, daughters · What happens: send, carry · To what, where: daughters, river, two pots
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 (brother, daughters), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 river | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carry | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 carry | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 carry | aux |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 carry | mark |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 river | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pots | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 pots | nummod |
| 19 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | brother | daughters = daughter | the river for water | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to river=Destination | ||
| 2 | carry | past | daughters = daughter | the river for water | two pots | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Value in pot=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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