Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 10
When the girl saw them coming she was afraid, and hid herself among the pumpkins.
Who acts: girl, men · What happens: see, come, be, hide · To what, where: men, girl, pumpkins
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, men), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hid | advcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 afraid | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | cop |
| 9 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coming | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hid | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hid | cc |
| 12 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 hid | obj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 pumpkins | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pumpkins | det |
| 16 | pumpkins | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the girl | men = man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | men = man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | girl | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | girl | the pumpkins | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient among pumpkin=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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