Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Mbulukazi., sentence 55
The ox licked her till her life came back, and as soon as she was strong once more, she told what had happened.
Who acts: ox, life · What happens: lick, come back, be, tell, happen · To what, where: Mbulukazi · 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 (ox, life), 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 ox | det |
| 2 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 licked | nsubj |
| 3 | licked | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 licked | obj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 licked | advcl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 told | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 strong | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 strong | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 strong | cop |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 soon | advcl |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 strong | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 licked | conj |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 happened | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 happened | aux |
| 25 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 told | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 licked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lick | past | the ox | Mbulukazi | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent she=Source | ||||
| 2 | come back | past | Mbulukazi's life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | life | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | life | soon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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