Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 4

In the course of the day the woman sent the girl that was with her to the hut, and when she came there a fly told her what had happened.

Who acts: woman, that, fly · What happens: send, be, come, tell, happen · To what, where: girl, course, woman · 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 (woman, that, fly), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 course	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 course	det
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 course	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 her	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 her	cop
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 girl	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 hut	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hut	det
18	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 told	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 came	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	advcl
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 came	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fly	det
26	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	nsubj
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	iobj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 happened	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 happened	aux
31	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 told	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	the woman	the girl		the course of the day	to the hut	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme in course=Destination
2	is	past	that				with her = she	tree rules
3	come	past	woman			there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	a fly		woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	happen	past · perfect					what nsubj	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 4