Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 10
The woman said she was now all alone, and therefore intended to kill herself.
Who acts: woman · What happens: say, be, intend, kill · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 alone | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 alone | cop |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 alone | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 alone | advmod |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 intended | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 intended | cc |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 12 intended | advmod |
| 12 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 intended | xcomp |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | woman | now | all, alone property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | intend | participle | the woman not said here | therefore property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | woman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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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