Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 13
The woman gave the doves some corn to eat, after which she took the jars home to her hut, and set them carefully down in a corner.
Who acts: woman · What happens: give, eat, take, set · To what, where: doves, jars, hut, corner
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Mbulukazi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 doves | det |
| 5 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 corn | det |
| 7 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 corn | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 took | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jars | det |
| 16 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 hut | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hut | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 took | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | obj |
| 25 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 26 down | advmod |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 set | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 corner | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 corner | det |
| 29 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the woman | the doves | some corn obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dove=Recipient corn=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | woman | the jars | woman's hut | which obl; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jar=Theme to hut=Destination | ||
| 4 | set | infinitive | woman not said here | doves = dove | a corner | down property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in corner=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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