Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 55

There was a deep valley in the way, and when she came to it she saw a very beautiful bird.

Who acts: deep valley, valley · What happens: be, come, see · To what, where: way, beautiful bird

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deep valley, valley), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 valley	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 valley	amod
5	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 valley	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saw	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bird	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 beautiful	advmod
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bird	amod
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a deep valley in the way		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	valley		way	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
3	see	past	valley	a beautiful bird		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Cannibal Mother and Her Children., sentence 55