Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 14

Every day the two doves came to be fed, and always told the woman to look at what was in the jars.

Who acts: two doves · What happens: come, feed, tell, look, be · To what, where: woman, jars · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (two doves), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doves	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 doves	nummod
5	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 fed	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 fed	aux:pass
9	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 told	advmod
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 look	mark
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	ccomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	23 jars	case
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 jars	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 jars	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 jars	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 jars	det
23	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 look	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the two doves			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feed	to-infinitive · passive	the two doves not said here					vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»
3	tell speech: assert	past	the two doves not said here	the woman			always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
4	look not said to happen	to-infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	past			the jars		what nsubj	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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 14