Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 15

At last, when she looked one day, she saw two children, one a boy, the other a girl, and both very handsome.

Who acts: woman · What happens: look, see · To what, where: two children

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looked	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 looked	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	conj
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 children	nummod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saw	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 boy	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 boy	nummod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 children	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 girl	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 girl	amod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 girl	det
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boy	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 handsome	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 handsome	cc
25	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	27 handsome	nsubj
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 handsome	advmod
27	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saw	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	woman				day	at last	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at last=Theme
2	see	past	woman	two children					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

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 15

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Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 15