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Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 54

Then it went to the deep pool of water, the men following it; it smelt all over the rock, and then jumped into the water and brought out the body of Mbulukazi.

Who acts: ox, men · What happens: go, follow, smelt, jump, bring out · To what, where: deep pool, ox, rock, water, body

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 (ox, men), 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

advmodnsubjcasedetamodoblcasenmodpunctdetnmodaclobjpunctnsubjparataxisadvmodcasedetoblpunctccadvmodconjcasedetoblccconjcompound:prtdetobjcasenmodpunctrootThenADVitPRONwentVERBtoADPtheDETdeepADJpoolNOUNofADPwaterNOUN,PUNCTtheDETmenNOUNfollowingVERBitPRON;PUNCTitPRONsmeltVERBallADVoverADPtheDETrockNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVjumpedVERBintoADPtheDETwaterNOUNandCCONJbroughtVERBoutADPtheDETbodyNOUNofADPMbulukaziPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 wentadvmod
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 wentnsubj
3wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoADP_7 poolcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 pooldet
6deepdeepADJDegree=Pos7 poolamod
7poolpoolNOUNNumber=Sing3 wentobl
8ofofADP_9 watercase
9waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing7 poolnmod
10,,PUNCT_12 menpunct
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 mendet
12menmanNOUNNumber=Plur7 poolnmod
13followingfollowVERBVerbForm=Ger12 menacl
14ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 followingobj
15;;PUNCT_17 smeltpunct
16ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 smeltnsubj
17smeltsmeltVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wentparataxis
18allallADV_21 rockadvmod
19overoverADP_21 rockcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 rockdet
21rockrockNOUNNumber=Sing17 smeltobl
22,,PUNCT_25 jumpedpunct
23andandCCONJ_25 jumpedcc
24thenthenADVPronType=Dem25 jumpedadvmod
25jumpedjumpVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 smeltconj
26intointoADP_28 watercase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 waterdet
28waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing25 jumpedobl
29andandCCONJ_30 broughtcc
30broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 jumpedconj
31outoutADP_30 broughtcompound:prt
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 bodydet
33bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing30 broughtobj
34ofofADP_35 Mbulukazicase
35MbulukaziMbulukaziPROPNNumber=Sing33 bodynmod
36..PUNCT_3 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastoxthe deep pool of water the menthenvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pool=Initial_Location
2followgerundthe men not said hereoxvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3smeltpastoxthe rocktree rules
4jumppastox not said heretheninto the water resultvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result
5bring outpastox not said herethe body of Mbulukazivn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient

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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