Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Cannibal’s Wonderful Bird., sentence 9
She was thus obliged to return to the water alone, while the other girls went home.
Who acts: other girls · What happens: oblige, return, go · To what, where: number
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 (other girls), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 obliged | advmod |
| 4 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 return | mark |
| 6 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 obliged | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | obl |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 return | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 went | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girls | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girls | amod |
| 15 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | conj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | number | thus property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | to the water result; alone property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to water=Result | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the other girls | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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