Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 18
When the girl came out of the water she asked for her clothes, but the mbulu said: “I will give them when you are dry.”
Who acts: girl, mbulu, you · What happens: come out, ask, say, give, be · To what, where: water, girls · 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 (girl, mbulu, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 clothes | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 asked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mbulu | det |
| 17 | mbulu | mbulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 dry | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 dry | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 dry | cop |
| 28 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 give | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the girl | the water | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | mbulu | for mbulu's clothes | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the mbulu | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | the mbulu = mbulu | girls = girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | you | dry property | 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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