Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 20
After a while the girl asked again, and the mbulu said: “I will give them when we get to the village.”
Who acts: girl, mbulu, we · What happens: ask, say, give, get · To what, where: 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, we), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 asked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mbulu | det |
| 11 | mbulu | mbulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | parataxis |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 get | advmod |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 village | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 village | det |
| 24 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the girl | again; while | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mbulu | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | the mbulu = mbulu | girls = girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present | we | to the village result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result |
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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