Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 1
A number of girls once went away from their homes early in the morning for the purpose of getting imbola (the red clay with which they colour their bodies and clothes).
Who acts: number, purpose, homes · What happens: go away, get, colour · To what, where: homes, imbola, bodies
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, purpose, homes), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 girls | case |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 number | nmod |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 went | advmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 homes | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 homes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 morning | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morning | det |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 purpose | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 purpose | det |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 getting | mark |
| 19 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 purpose | acl |
| 20 | imbola | imbola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 getting | obj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 clay | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 clay | det |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 clay | amod |
| 24 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 imbola | appos |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 colour | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 colour | nsubj |
| 28 | colour | colour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 clay | acl:relcl |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 colour | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 clothes | cc |
| 32 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 30 bodies | conj |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 clay | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | a number of girls | girls's homes | morning | for the purpose; away, once property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | get | gerund | the purpose not said here | imbola | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer imbola=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | colour | present | homes = home | homes's bodies and clothes | with the red clay | tree rules |
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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