Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 2
Having arrived at the village of Long Snake she remained there, but the owner of the place was absent.
Who acts: Snake, owner · What happens: arrive, remain, be · To what, where: village, Long Snake
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 (Snake, owner), 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 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 arrived | aux |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 village | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Snake | case |
| 7 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Snake | amod |
| 8 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 village | nmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 remained | nsubj |
| 10 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Snake | acl:relcl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 remained | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 absent | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 absent | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 owner | det |
| 15 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 absent | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owner | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 absent | cop |
| 20 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 arrived | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | gerund · perfect | the village of Long Snake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remain | past | Snake | Long Snake not said here | there | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snake=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is | past | the owner of the place | absent property | tree rules |
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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