Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 35
When it went down the people saw that this was a mbulu, so they killed it and buried it in that hole.
Who acts: tail, people, this · What happens: go down, see, be, kill, bury · To what, where: mbulu, tail, hole
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 (tail, people, this), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 saw | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 mbulu | mark |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 mbulu | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 mbulu | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mbulu | det |
| 12 | mbulu | mbulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 killed | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | nsubj |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 buried | cc |
| 19 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 killed | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 buried | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hole | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 hole | det |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 buried | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | tail | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | a mbulu | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | people | tail | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bury | past | people not said here | tail | that hole | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hole=Destination |
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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