Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 22
The boy gave them all some water, but the young chief would only take it from the girl.
Who acts: boy, young chief · What happens: give, take · To what, where: water, 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 (boy, young chief), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 water | det |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chief | amod |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 girl | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the boy | all water | children = child | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient water=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | would | the young chief | water | from the girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from girl=Initial_Location |
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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