Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl and the Mbulu., sentence 6
Then a mouse told her the same thing, but still she did not believe it was true.
Who acts: mouse, woman · What happens: tell, not believe, be · To what, where: same thing, 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 (mouse, woman), 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 | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mouse | det |
| 3 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 believe | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 believe | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 believe | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 believe | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 believe | advmod |
| 15 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 true | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 true | cop |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 believe | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | a mouse | the same thing | woman | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient thing=Topic | ||
| 2 | not believe | past · do-support | woman | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | mouse | true property | 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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