Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 23
He was very much smitten with her beauty, and watched her when she left, so as to find out where she lived.
Who acts: girl · What happens: smite, watch, leave, find out, live · To what, where: boy, girl · 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 (girl), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smitten | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smitten | aux:pass |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 smitten | advmod |
| 5 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 beauty | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smitten | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 watched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 watched | cc |
| 11 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smitten | parataxis |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 watched | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 left | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 watched | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 find | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 watched | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 find | compound:prt |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 lived | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lived | nsubj |
| 24 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smitten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past · passive | boy | with girl's beauty | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with beauty=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | girl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | girl | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find out | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | live | past | girl | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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