Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 19
Then she set off at once, and went on till she arrived in the evening at the village of Long Snake.
Who acts: sister · What happens: set off, go on, arrive · To what, where: village
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 set | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 arrived | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 arrived | nsubj |
| 13 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 evening | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 evening | det |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrived | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 village | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 village | det |
| 19 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrived | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Long | case |
| 21 | Long | Long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 village | nmod |
| 22 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Long | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | sister | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | sister not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past | sister | the village of Long | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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