Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 39
They afterwards threw the ashes into a river, so that nothing more could come of that mbulu.
Who acts: people, nothing · What happens: throw, come · To what, where: ashes, river, mbulu
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 (people, nothing), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ashes | det |
| 5 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threw | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 come | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 come | nsubj |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 nothing | amod |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 threw | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 come | obl |
| 18 | mbulu | mbulu | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | people | the ashes | into a river result; afterwards property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer ash=Theme into river=Result | |||
| 2 | come | could | nothing | mbulu | of that | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of that=Initial_Location |
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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