Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 27
Then they made a plan to find out if what the girl was singing was the truth.
Who acts: girls, girl · What happens: make, find out, sing, be · To what, where: plan, truth
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 (girls, girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plan | det |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 plan | acl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 find | compound:prt |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 singing | mark |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 singing | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 singing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 singing | aux |
| 14 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 find | advcl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 truth | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 truth | det |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 singing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | girls = girl | a plan | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product | |||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | girls = girl not said here | a plan not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | the girl | what obj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the truth | 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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