Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 15
The mbulu said, whoever wetted any part of their body in crossing the river must go in and bathe.
Who acts: mbulu, whoever, river · What happens: say, wett, cross, go in, bathe · To what, where: part · 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 (mbulu, whoever, river), 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 mbulu | det |
| 2 | mbulu | mbulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wetted | punct |
| 5 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wetted | nsubj |
| 6 | wetted | wett | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wetted | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 body | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 crossing | mark |
| 13 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 wetted | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 crossing | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bathe | cc |
| 20 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mbulu | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wett | past | whoever | any part of bones's body | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cross | gerund | whoever not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in | must | the river | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bathe | infinitive | the river not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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