Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 2
About midday there came two birds and flew away with the girl.
What happens: come, fly away · To what, where: two birds
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: 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 2 midday | case |
| 2 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 midday | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 birds | nummod |
| 6 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flew | cc |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | two birds | about midday | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly away | past | with the girl; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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